by Verlie S | Jul 4, 2019 | History
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland. His parents, Robert and Mary, were freedmen (who had been formerly enslaved) and lived on a 100-acre farm near Patapsco riverbank, Baltimore County. His grandparents, parents, and siblings...
by Reneegede | Jul 3, 2019 | Black Artists, Black Businesses, Black Family & Community, Education and Imprisonment, News
WHAT IS THE PAN-AFRICAN WEEKEND? July 18-21, 2019 Celebrating Black Women, Business and Careers, Black Youth and Produced by Face2Face-Africa. Held in New York City, the Pan-African Weekend is a prestigious annual event that celebrates, connects, and empowers the...
by Verlie S | Jul 3, 2019 | History
Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker, was one of the first African Americans to become extremely wealthy in the United States. Walker suffered a scalp ailment that led to hair loss. She started experimenting with a wide range of products to prevent further...
by Verlie S | Jul 2, 2019 | History
George Washington Carver was a prominent African American scientist and inventor. Born into slavery in the year 1864, in addition to becoming an inventor, he was also a botanist as well as a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. At a young age, Carver took a keen...
by Verlie S | Jul 1, 2019 | History
This biography highlights the life of Elijah McCoy, an inventor who developed lubrication devices to enhance train and railway operations. McCoy also made work easier for housewives when he invented the ironing table. In 1897, He received the US patent #150,876 for...
by Verlie S | Jun 28, 2019 | History
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) was founded by Edward Barnette and Fred Cooper in 1975 at Purdue University. Barnette (now deceased) became NSBE’s first president with Arthur J. Bond, Ph.D., a black faculty member, as BSE’s advisor. The group started as...
by Verlie S | Jun 27, 2019 | History
The Rainbow Push Coalition came from Operation Breadbasket –a department in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The SCLC was a notable African-American civil rights organization. This coalition upheld some of Operation Breadbasket’s principles like...
by Verlie S | Jun 26, 2019 | History
The National Urban League (NUL) is an organization that was established to eliminate racial discrimination and segregation, assisting African Americans and other minorities to take part in all aspects of American life. The NUL was founded on October 11, 1910, to...
by Verlie S | Jun 25, 2019 | History
The Nation of Islam (NOI), was founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad. Established in 1930 in Detroit, Michigan as an African American group. Fard appointed Elijah Muhammad as an assistant in 1931 and trained him for future leadership in the organization. When Fard...
by Verlie S | Jun 24, 2019 | History
The Civil Rights Movement paved the way for many African Americans to gain social justice rights in the United States. The movement began in the 1950s and at its peak ran into the late 1960s. Within the span of two decades, many blacks and whites marched and protested...
