by James Washington | Aug 25, 2016 | Modern History, Politics News
The West Point Military Academy is honoring one great man with an illustrious military career by naming a Barracks for him. The man is the late Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Davis entered the West Point Academy in 1932 as the only black cadet. In a time of rife racism, Davis...
by James Washington | Aug 24, 2016 | Celebrities, Did You Know, Modern History
Born Anthony Kevin Dungy on October 6, 1955, Tony (as he is popularly known) is a former professional NFL football player and coach in the NFL. He played professionally and recently became the first African-American coach to become absorbed into the famous Pro...
by Forest Parks | Aug 23, 2016 | Culture, History, Modern History
People choose a lot of ways to fight those that are attacking them and this story shows how far the wit of one man can go. One black preacher made a gang of Ku Klux Klan members look like idiots on multiple occasions until they left him alone. The leader of that group...
by Forest Parks | Aug 17, 2016 | History, Modern History
Have you ever seen an ice skater do a backflip? It sounds insane and it totally is! The move is extremely dangerous and illegal and has only ever been performed by 4 skaters, one of them a French woman named Surya Bonaly. She was a controversial skater during the 80s...
by Forest Parks | Aug 17, 2016 | History, Modern History
A new movie and a book brings to light a bit of very important history that unsurprisingly has been kept on the down-low during our education. Did you know that black women mathematicians and scientists were absolutely essential to the success of NASA in the early...
by James Washington | Aug 13, 2016 | Modern History
Alabama’s parole board decided against the former KKK member who was found guilty of killing 4 young black girls in a hate bombing at a church over fifty years ago. In the decision Thomas Blanton Jr., 76, was denied parole. As the last surviving member of this...
by Freddie Ra | Aug 12, 2016 | Celebrities, Modern History
The world was introduced to a powerful new force in the #BlackGirlMagic movement last night at the Olympics in Rio, Brazil, but the sad part is you probably haven’t heard much about it. 20 year old Simone Manuel became the first African-American, female swimmer...
by Forest Parks | Aug 2, 2016 | Did You Know, History
Becoming the owner of a bank is no small feat for anyone, let alone a man that was once enslaved against his will, held in chains! However, Reverend William Washington Browne broke his shackles and became the first black owner of a bank in the United States. He...
by Forest Parks | Jul 27, 2016 | Did You Know, History, Modern History
Very important! This is the ONLY time the word REPARATIONS has been used by a US city against a police force! Have you heard of police Commander Jon Burge and his ‘Midnight Crew’? Many have but not enough people know of this disgraceful story in 1980s...
by Forest Parks | Jul 18, 2016 | History, Modern History
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