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Long before Afeni’s son Tupac was making waves in the world of hip hop, his mother Afeni was making her mark on this earth. She was bon in 1947 and became a businesswoman, philanthropist and political activist. She was also a Black Panther! Famously she defended...
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Bessie Coleman was a trailblazer! A black / native woman flying a plane caused quite a stir back in 1921 when she sailed home from Paris where she had just obtained her aviation license, making her the first women of African American and Native American descent to do...
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A beautiful moment was caught on camera by an off duty University cop in Baltimore who was waiting for a bus. On March 1st Eric Gaines, a police officer at the University of Maryland, was waiting for a bus in the area he patrolled. There was a homeless guy, who was...
by Forest Parks | Mar 9, 2016 | Culture, Profiles in Black History
Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10th 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the child of former slaves and graduated from Scotia Seminary for Girls in 1893 with a strong belief that racial advancement could only be acheived with educatiions she founded the...
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by Forest Parks | Mar 7, 2016 | Culture, Profiles in Black History
When I look back at women like Ida B.Wells I am astonished that anyone could have achieved so much in such hard times. She was born into slavery but went onto become an investigative journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, Georgist, an early leader in...
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