Fannie Jackson was born a slave in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained her freedom when her aunt was able to purchase her at the age of twelve. Through her teen years Jackson worked as a servant for the author George Henry Calvert and in ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2015 at 5:11PM
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Some call Venus and Serena Williams two of the greatest female tennis players of all time. While the Williams sisters are one of the most dynamic sibling duos in sports history, they weren't the first African-American siblings to take tennis by ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2015 at 1:51PM
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Mary Fields was born into slavery in Tennessee in about 1832. She received her freedom when the war ended and slavery was outlawed but she stayed near her original owners, the Dunn family, as she and the Dunns’ daughter had become good friends. ...
Posted Sunday, February 15th 2015 at 5:23PM
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Joseph Searles III (born 1948) was elected as the first African American trader of the New York Stock Exchange.
Joseph Searles III graduated from Kansas State University in 1963 with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. After graduation ...
Posted Friday, February 13th 2015 at 10:19AM
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Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891. Evanti was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family. Her father, Wilson Evan ...
Posted Thursday, February 12th 2015 at 5:30PM
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The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 The infamous Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was part of the wave of racial and labor violence that swept the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919. It was witnessed by an estimated ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up he ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:26PM
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Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult
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Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:10PM
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Mary Jane Patterson was born September 12, 1840, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the first African American woman to receive a B.A degree. She was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conf ...
Posted Monday, February 2nd 2015 at 5:35PM
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January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
To commemorate the occasion new photos have been released showing some of the men and women who lived through that era &nda ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:33PM
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After dropping his critically lauded Black Messiah, D’Angelo, was the featured guest on a J.K. Simmons-hosted episode of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ The sketch comedy show featured riffs on Obamacare, Microsoft Office, and Seattle Seahaw ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 7:23PM
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Saviours’ Day 2015 marks the 85th year of the Nation of Islam’s existence in North America
Each year, the Nation of Islam commemorates the birth of its founder Master W. Fard Muhammad (February 26, 1877). This year’s Saviours& ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:39PM
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The Woolworth sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights ...
Posted Sunday, February 1st 2015 at 5:31PM
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The following article contains excerpts from the message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on June 15, 2013 as Part 23 of his 52-week Lecture Series “The Time and What Must Be Done” titled “We Must Unite To Save Ou ...
Posted Thursday, January 15th 2015 at 8:34PM
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(FinalCall.com) - A large gathering was held January 11 drawing more than a million to the streets of Paris for a rally, which many are calling the largest demonstration in French history.
While that symbolic show of international unity has captured ...
Posted Thursday, January 15th 2015 at 7:34PM
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Popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey is under fire from activists who have been out in the streets drawing attention to police brutality against young black men, after she called their movement “leaderless,” the Washington Post reports.
During ...
Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 3:25PM
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DISCLAIMER: This video is not meant to insult the Christian community. This is merely a point of view.
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Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 3:20PM
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TEXAS CITY - The last time Kathey Kelley saw her son, Carlton “Chimmy” Smith, he was surrounded by friends and family celebrating Christmas at her brother’s house in La Marque.
But a few hours later, her 20-year-old son, who friends and f ...
Posted Saturday, December 27th 2014 at 3:34PM
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Happy birthday to you dear sister. Thank you for your contributions to this forum and keep on being the inspiring sister and wholistic health teacher you are through your words, wisdom, and actions! ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2014 at 4:27PM
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In anticipation of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's desire to lead the Muslim community to Mecca for Hajj (Pilgrimage) in the near future. Here's a Photo to Inspire Us.
Here we see a smiling Minister Farrakhan with his delegation in Mecca ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2014 at 4:10PM
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The Beginning
The original God-Men of the Nile, Kemetians, Canaanites, Hittites and Moabites were the world’s first Astronomers. They recorded the exact timing and beginning of the four seasons within a calendar year. “Solstice”, pronounced ...
Posted Wednesday, December 24th 2014 at 6:06PM
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What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross—A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years on accusations of espionage—President Obama announced a resumption in relations between the ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 5:23PM
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On December 17, 2008, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was invited by Reverend Dr. Michael Pfleger of The Faith Community of St. Sabina, to deliver remarks at an emotional anti-violence rally at the Illinois State Building in downtown Chicago. ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2014 at 1:52PM
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