This Day in Black History: May 12, 1951
Former congressman Oscar De Priest died of complications from a bus accident on May 12, 1951.
Oscar Stanton De Priest ended a 28-year-long dry spell of Black congressional lawmakers when he was the first Bl ...
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For Immediate Release From Huffington Post!
“Teaching is the profession that enables all other professions,” writes Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona. “And teachers deserve respect.”
Twenty-five years ago, I was a newly minted ...
Posted Thursday, May 11th 2023 at 11:26AM
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This Information Is Vitally Important
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“The intention behind the World Economic Fo ...
Posted Thursday, May 11th 2023 at 9:33AM
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Louis Farrakhan (Born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is an American black supremacist and anti-white cult leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI). Prior to joining the NOI, he was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. Earlier ...
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This Day in Black History: May 11, 1981
Bob Marley passed away 40 years ago today.
On May 11, 1981, singer-songwriter Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley died from skin cancer at age 36.
Born on February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile village in Jamaica’s S ...
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 4:29PM
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Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943) is an American dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Early training
Judith Jamison was born in 1943 to Tessie Brown Jamison and John Jamison ...
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Merlene Joyce Ottey OJ CD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She is ranke ...
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Kenan Thompson (Born May 10, 1978) is an American comedian and actor. Thompson has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. He was also the fi ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 7:32AM
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For Immediate Release From USDE!
To mark Public Service Recognition Week, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced that, as of the beginning of May 2023, it has approved a total of $42 billion in Public Service Loan Forgiven ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 3:11PM
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For Immediate Release From NAMI-Georgia!
What is Ending the Silence?
NAMI Ending the Silence is a presentation designed for middle and high school students, school staff, and parents or guardians of middle or high school-aged youth.
Who ca ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 1:50PM
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On May 9, 2010, Lena Horne died in New York City at age 92 of heart failure.
Groundbreaking singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne, 92, died of heart failure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on May 9, 2010.
The legendary performer was the firs ...
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Dennis David Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and a member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough success in the aftermath of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 5:26AM
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This Day in Black History: May 9, 1963
Arthur Wergs Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress, died in Petersburg, Virginia, on May 9, 1963.
Arthur Wergs Mitchell, a U.S. representative from Illinois, was the first African-American ...
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Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher (May 9, 1897 – December 26, 1934) was an American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. His father was John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, his mother was Glendora Williams ...
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For Immediate Release From Kingdom-Levine-Oliver Publisher, Inc.!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POPE FRANCIS SPECIAL CORONATION GIFT TO KING CHARLESS III
PRESIDENT OBAMA HOSTED PRINCE CHARLES AT WHITE HOUSE MEMORY
PRESIDENT BIDEND CONGRATULATE ...
Posted Saturday, May 6th 2023 at 3:15PM
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Meet M.A Cherry, the African American who invented the tricycle in 1888
Many people would not have owned the bikes and motor vehicles they have today if it had not been for Mathew A. Cherry’s invention of the tricycle.
The African American in ...
Posted Saturday, May 6th 2023 at 2:05PM
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Willie Howard Mays Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Regarded as one of the greatest players ever, Mays ranks second behind only Babe Ruth on most all-time li ...
Posted Saturday, May 6th 2023 at 1:56PM
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on Augu ...
Posted Saturday, May 6th 2023 at 1:41PM
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Regaining Our Full Humanity
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“Thus, to the fundamental existential question ‘What is a human being?’ Africans respond: Bumuntu. This notion c ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2023 at 1:18PM
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This Day in Black History: May 4, 1884
On May 4, 1884, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was asked by a train conductor to move from her seat in a ladies' car into a smoking car on a ride to Nashville, Tennessee, where she would be taking class ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2023 at 12:00PM
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Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m. He was ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2023 at 10:55AM
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Ella Fitzgerald becomes first Black woman to win a Grammy Award May 4, 1959.
Called the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald becomes the first Black woman to win a Grammy at the Recording Academy’s inaugural awards show on May 4, 1959.
During ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2023 at 10:47AM
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For Immediate Release From The Associated Press!
Michelle Obama announced Wednesday that she has co-founded a new company to make and sell healthier food and drinks for kids, products that she says will be less detrimental to their long-term h ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2023 at 9:34AM
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