He was born James Hubert Blake. He wrote Shuffle Along, among the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans. Eubie! opened on Broadway in 1978 and featured his body of work. He was he sole survivor of 8 children who died in infancy. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in […]
Read more "Eubie Blake"She was born Isabella Baumfree (Bomefree) a slave in upstate New York circa 1797 and died November 26, 1883. She had 5 children. Smithsonian magazine named her among the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time. She escaped to freedom in 1826 with only one of her children. In 1828 she became the first black […]
Read more "Sojourner Truth"Sunrise December 19, 1875, Sunset April 3, 1950. He was a high school principal in the United States and a school supervisor in the Philippines. He was a member of the first black professional fraternity. In 1915 he founded the Journal of Negro History. He founded the Association for the Study of African American Life […]
Read more "Carter G. Woodson"Sunrise 12/23/1867, born Sarah Breedlove, sunset 5/25/1919. Her official website lists her as an “entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist”. In July 1912 she said “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And […]
Read more "Madame C. J. Walker"Sunrise 8/2/24 in Harlem, sunset 12/1/87 in Saint-Paul-de-Vance, France. He wrote the school song while attending P.S.24. He was the editor of his junior high school paper. Countee Cullen was an influence. He was a literary editor of the school magazine of DeWitt Clinton High School. His classmate was Richard Avedon. He was a PK […]
Read more "James Baldwin #WeAreEverywhere"The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale who met in 1962 while they were both students at Merritt College. They had a Free Breakfast for Children program. The BPP provided legal aid. Then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the BPP “ […]
Read more " #BlackPanthersAt50"Sunrise February 1818 into slavery born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, sunset February 20, 1895. Sorry, Mr. Trump, he is not alive, but we are glad you know about him. He published several autobiographies. His first two autobiographies, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” (1845) and “My Bondage and My Freedom” (1855), were bestsellers. He […]
Read more "Frederick Douglass"Sunrise February 17, 1942, born Huey Percy Newton in Monroe, Louisiana (named after the former governor of Louisiana, Huey Long), sunset August 22, 1989 in Oakland, California.P. He co-founded the BPP in 1966 along with his former classmate at Merritt College in Oakland, Bobby Seale. He went to law school, loved to read (he was […]
Read more "Huey Newton #BlackPanthersAt50"Born Alvin Lopez Jarreau in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sunrise March 12, 1940, sunset February 12, 2017, Los Angeles, California He was a PK, preacher’s kid, his dad was a Seventh Day Adventist minister. He embraced Scientology at one time, but later dissociated himself from it. He was married twice and had one son. He wrote the […]
Read more "Al Jarreau"Born Robert George Seale 10/22/36 in Liberty,Texas. Co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) with Huey Newton while they were both enrolled at Merritt Community College in Oakland, California Dropped out of Berkeley High School to join the United States Air Force and was dishonorably discharged three years later for fighting. Adopted Malcolm X’s […]
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