Black History

Juneteenth

June 19, or Juneteenth, is Independence Day for many folks of African descent. Also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, it commemorates the end of slavery, the seminal event in African-American history. President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, but the word did not spread instantly. According to one account from […]

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Brian McKnight

He has sold more than 30 million albums. He has 16 Grammy nods, no wins. He has released 16 CDs. In his show he performs television theme songs like Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, The Love Boat, and Good Times. In addition to singing he plays eight instruments piano, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, trombone, tuba, […]

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Howard Thurman

He was African-American. He died in San Francisco. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was the dean of chapels at Howard and Boston Universities and the first black dean of a majority-white university in the United States. He co-founded the first major interdenominational church in the United States, the Church of Fellowship of […]

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Ruby Bridges

She is 60 years old and celebrated the 50th year reunion of her integrating the school in 2010. The Norman Rockwell painting was entitled: “The Problem we all Live With”. Bridges thought the people were shouting for Marti Gras, not in protest of her integrating the school. All the white kids were pulled out of […]

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