Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the 1st black president of any nation: Liberia, 1847
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the 1st black president of any nation: Liberia, 1847
On September 29, 1947, bebop came to Carnegie Hall for the first time when Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald made their Carnegie Hall…
Jackie Shane was a transgender singer, a collection collection of her songs, called Any Other Way, was nominated for a Grammy for best historical album…
The midnight concert on October 29, 1955—Carnegie Hall’s first full-length rock 'n' roll concert—featured 14 different black acts, all performing their biggest hits.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a reporter aka "the Cardi B of journalism" and co-founder of The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.