by Forest Parks | May 25, 2016 | Culture, Did You Know
Here is a short list of just some of the things she acheived: The first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman’s Civil Rights Leadership Award.Honored for raising the image of blacks through her work on stage, television and in the movies. buy advair rotahaler...
by Freddie Ra | May 24, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
No single title does credit to the prodigious talents of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois. Born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he has been labeled an educator, author, historian, socialogist, philosopher, poet, leader and radical. In 1903, his famous book...
by Freddie Ra | May 23, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Fannie Lou Hamer was born October 6, 1917 in the Mississippi Delta. Inspired by the fighting spirit of her mother, Fannie Lou Hamer became widely known as the “Spirit” of Civil Rights movement. In early 1960’s a Black man or woman could lose their...
by Freddie Ra | May 20, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born in 1753 in Senegal, West Africa but sold into slavery at eight years old, Phillis Wheatley became the most famous female poet of the eighteenth century. At age thirteen years old and while still in slavery, Phillis Wheatley’s poems were being circulated...
by Freddie Ra | May 19, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Matthew henson belongs to that hardy race of adventurers which from man’s earliest history paved the way for civilization by adding to the knowledge that was hitherto unattainable. Henson’s feat in reaching the North Pole holds a high place in the saga of...
by Freddie Ra | May 18, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born in 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Percy Julian was one of the most famous Black scientist. Just as George Washington Carver demonstrated what could be done with the ordinary peanut, Dr. Julian took the soybean, which was until this time just another bean, and...
by Freddie Ra | May 17, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Paul Robeson was one of the most giften men in the history of the world. He was an athlete, actor, author, attorney, a scholar and concert singer. Born in Princeton, New Jersey on April 9th, 1898, Paul Robeson showed that he was a man of many talents. He gave 296...
by Freddie Ra | May 16, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Among Black leaders Marcus Garvey was unique. Born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s popularity was universal. His program for the return of African people to their motherland shook the foundations of three empires. All...
by Freddie Ra | May 2, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar was so talented and versatile that he succeeded in two worlds. He was so adept at writing verse in Black dialect thaqt he becameknown as the “poet of his people,” while also cultivating a white audience that appreciated...
by Freddie Ra | Apr 28, 2016 | Africa, Profiles in Black History
Born in 1892 near Harer, Haile Selassie I was the last emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) and a grandnephew of Emperor Menelik II. In 1916, he ousted Menelik’s successor, Lij Iyasu, replacing him with Zauditu, the old emperor’s daughter. Selassie succeeded...
