by gamma | Apr 2, 2020 | History, Modern History, News, Positivity, Profiles in Black History
Gwen Jimmere had just $32 in the bank! What would you do in that situation? You’d laugh if we suggested you start a business but that is what Gwen did and it was the best decision of her life. Gwen had been laid off from her corporate gig, she was going through...
by gamma | Feb 4, 2020 | History, Profiles in Black History
Today Google’s Doodle honored a hero many in the USA have never heard of. South African activist Nkosi Johnson was the longest-surviving child born with HIV when he passed away at age 12 in 2001. Nkosi was born to Nonthlanthla Daphne Nkosi in a village near...
by Reneegede | Apr 29, 2019 | Black Artists, Celebrities, Culture, History, In Memoriam, News, Profiles in Black History
To a man who single-handedly took on racial stereotypes waged against all Black “boyz in the ‘hood,” structured an idea about what it means to kill one another and to ‘man up’ and become a REAL Black man in America (“Baby...
by Reneegede | Apr 25, 2019 | Culture, News, Politics News, PRESSERS, Profiles in Black History
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced H.R. 1856, the Ending Homelessness Act of 2019, legislation that provides a comprehensive plan for every person experiencing homelessness in...
by Verlie S | Apr 9, 2019 | April, Black Artists, Profiles in Black History
This biography highlights the life of Nikki Giovanni and her accomplishments. Nikki was born in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. She gives hope and inspires through her literary works. She writes on the plight of African-Americans from the 1960s to today. Some of her...
by Verlie S | Apr 8, 2019 | April, Profiles in Black History
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a poet and a novelist who wrote about the various accomplishments of African-Americans and promoted pride in the African-American identity and culture. Dunbar was the first African-American author to garner a significant nation-wide and global...
by Reneegede | Mar 31, 2019 | Black 365, Celebrities, Culture, Profiles in Black History
At around 3:25 p.m. local time, Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a shooting call at Hussle’s “The Marathon Store”, according to LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez. When they arrived at the scene, they found three people “suffering from gunshot...
by Reneegede | Mar 31, 2019 | Celebrities, Culture, Modern History, News, Opinion, Profiles in Black History
Let’s be clear: Michelle Obama does what she does because it’s necessary to her own survival. It’s more of a case of Oprahism than it is racism. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, all respect due to the ancestor, kind of threw himself under a...
by James Washington | Feb 3, 2019 | History, Profiles in Black History
John Horse was an African and Seminole military leader, who became known under many names, such as John Cowaya, Gopher John, and Juan Caballo. While there isn’t much known about his early life, we believe he came into this world in 1812. It’s also known that by the...
by Forest Parks | Feb 1, 2019 | History, Profiles in Black History
Frances Cress Welsing is an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist who became known for her 1970 essay The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, which became the beginning of the Isis Papers. Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, her father, Henry, was a...
