Crispus Attucks
The first American to die in the American Revolutionary War, Crispus Attucks was killed on March 5, 1770 during the Boston Massacre in Boston, Massachusetts.
On a Friday night in Boston, Attucks stood in front of a group challen ...
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Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights
SELMA, Ala. — President Biden arrived in Alabama to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights mo ...
Posted Sunday, March 5th 2023 at 5:11PM
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Marsha Francine Warfield (born March 5, 1954) is an American actress and comedian. She grew up on Chicago's South Side, graduating from Calumet High School. She is best known for her 1986–92 role of Roz Russell on the Top 10 rated NBC sitcom Night Co ...
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Lena Baker, an African-American mother of three, was electrocuted in a Georgia prison on March 5, 1945.
Lena Baker was an African-American maid who was executed in a Georgia state prison for killing her employer, Ernest Knight. Baker testified at ...
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Bernard Powell
Bernard Powell (March 5, 1947 – 1979) was a Black Civil Rights Activist in Kansas City, Missouri. He joined the NAACP at the age of 13 and later founded the Social Action Committee of 20 (SAC-20). Powell was recognized with many hon ...
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Bert Williams (November 12, 1874 – March 4, 1922) was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He is credited as being the fir ...
Posted Saturday, March 4th 2023 at 5:45PM
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.
It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven articles, it delineates the national fram ...
Posted Saturday, March 4th 2023 at 5:15PM
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Robert Dwayne Womack (/ˈwoʊmæk/; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's ...
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This Day in Black History: March 4, 1877
Garrett A. Morgan, noted American inventor, was born on March 4, 1877.
Garrett Augustus Morgan, born on March 4, 1877, was a renowned African-American inventor who was best known for developing the traffi ...
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Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Loc (/toʊn loʊk/), is an American rapper. He is known for his raspy voice, his hit songs "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", for which he was nominated for a ...
Posted Friday, March 3rd 2023 at 9:47AM
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Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers during his arrest after a pursuit for driving while in ...
Posted Friday, March 3rd 2023 at 9:01AM
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Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals in those tw ...
Posted Friday, March 3rd 2023 at 7:41AM
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/; Xhosa: ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa f ...
Posted Thursday, March 2nd 2023 at 5:26PM
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Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1956) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the ...
Posted Thursday, March 2nd 2023 at 5:06PM
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Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns
Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra", and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns's tall, slender build and oversized arm ...
Posted Thursday, March 2nd 2023 at 3:07PM
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Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points vs New York Knicks
On March 2, 1962, one of the world's greatest professional basketball players, Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain set the NBA single-game scoring record when he hit 100 points to help the Philade ...
Posted Thursday, March 2nd 2023 at 2:20PM
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March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat
I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me do ...
Posted Thursday, March 2nd 2023 at 11:17AM
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Sherman Alexander Hemsley (February 1, 1938 – July 24, 2012) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family (1973–1975; 1978) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985), Deacon Ernest Frye on ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 8:03PM
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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the fir ...
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Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an international ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 1:43PM
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This Day in Black History: March 1, 1890
The Supreme Court of California began allowing Black students to enroll in public schools on March 1, 1890.
Thanks to one father's fight, African-Americans in Visalia, California, were able to enroll in ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 12:22PM
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William Henry Hastie Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federa ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 11:43AM
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on Ma ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 11:27AM
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Maxie Cleveland "Max" Robinson, Jr. (May 1, 1939 – December 20, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983. Robinson is note ...
Posted Wednesday, March 1st 2023 at 10:59AM
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Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African America ...
Posted Tuesday, February 28th 2023 at 8:15PM
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