Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmer ...
Posted Saturday, September 16th 2023 at 8:35PM
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On This Day In Black History Sept 16 - Claude Albert Barnett
Claude Albert Barnett was born on September 16, 1889, in Sanford, Florida. His great-grant grandparents were free Negroes in antebellum Raleigh, North Carolina, and at a young age he w ...
Posted Saturday, September 16th 2023 at 4:59PM
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September 14, 1940 “Blacks are Allowed to Join Any Branch of the Military”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed the Selective Service Act on September 14, 1940. One of the components of the Selective Service Act, allowed African Americans ...
Posted Thursday, September 14th 2023 at 9:15PM
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Nell Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress.
Carter began her career in 1970, singing in the theater, and later crossed over to television. She was best known for her role as Nel ...
Posted Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 4:48PM
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What is 988 Then Press 1?
The Veterans Crisis Line's new number—988 then Press 1—helps make it easier to remember and share the number to access help in times of need.
Signed into law in 2020, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act ...
Posted Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 3:50PM
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Iyanla Vanzant (born Rhonda Eva Harris; September 13, 1953) is an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, her eponymous talk show, ...
Posted Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 8:51AM
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Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect — ...
Posted Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 8:43AM
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Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American retired sprinter who won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals in the span of his career. He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as w ...
Posted Wednesday, September 13th 2023 at 7:23AM
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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifeti ...
Posted Tuesday, September 12th 2023 at 5:17PM
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Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-America ...
Posted Monday, September 11th 2023 at 4:33PM
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On September 11, 1999, a young seventeen year old Serena Williams became the second African American woman to win the US Open, following the historic Althea Gibson who won the US Open in 1957 and 1958. Williams has dominated this women's tennis with ...
Posted Monday, September 11th 2023 at 3:21PM
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Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), known professionally as Ludacris (/ˈluːdəkrɪs/, homophonous with 'ludicrous' in American English), is an American rapper and actor. Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved ...
Posted Monday, September 11th 2023 at 12:28PM
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Taraji Penda Henson (Born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She played a ...
Posted Monday, September 11th 2023 at 12:17PM
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The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to as The Oprah Show or simply Oprah, is an American daytime syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by Opra ...
Posted Friday, September 8th 2023 at 2:07PM
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RAPPER EASY-E BORN
September 7, 1963 - March 26, 1995
Eric Lynn Wright (September 7, 1964 – March 26, 1995), known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and it ...
Posted Thursday, September 7th 2023 at 10:56AM
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu OMSG CH GCStJ (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then A ...
Posted Thursday, September 7th 2023 at 10:42AM
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Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a le ...
Posted Thursday, September 7th 2023 at 10:09AM
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On This Day In Black History Sept 5 - R&B singer Terry Ellis (En Vogue) born (1966)
Terry Ellis (born September 5, 1963) is an American singer. She is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop vocal group En Vogue which formed in 1989.
C ...
Posted Tuesday, September 5th 2023 at 3:32AM
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On This Day In Black History Sept 5 - Muhammed Ali (then Cassius Clay) Wins Gold Medal
Considered by many to be the world's most famous sports personality and boxer of all time (Muhammad Ali) born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. received the gold me ...
Posted Tuesday, September 5th 2023 at 3:21AM
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On This Day In Black History Sept 5 - Buddy Miles
George Allen "Buddy" Miles Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008) was an American composer, drummer, guitarist, vocalist and producer. He was a founding member of the Electric Flag (1967), a ...
Posted Tuesday, September 5th 2023 at 3:14AM
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of ...
Posted Monday, September 4th 2023 at 6:53PM
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In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in the famous Brown v Board of Education case that segregation of schools in the American South was unconstitutional. Despite this ruling, integrating the schools was not a simple act.
The conflict over segregat ...
Posted Monday, September 4th 2023 at 3:23PM
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Damon Kyle Wayans (/ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year-long stint o ...
Posted Monday, September 4th 2023 at 11:30AM
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On This Day In Black History Sept 4 -Jesse Owens wins long jump—and respect—in Germany
On August 4, 1936, American Jesse Owens wins gold in the long jump at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. It was the second of four gold medals Owens ...
Posted Monday, September 4th 2023 at 11:17AM
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