The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. Over the next twelve years, the BSCP fought a three-fr ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 4:47PM
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In 1781, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman became the first African-American woman to win her freedom from slavery through a court of law. The case was held in Massachusetts, which coincidentally, became the first state in the Union to abolish slavery; many ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:22PM
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In 1970, Cheryl Adrienne Brown was the first African-American woman to compete in the Miss America pageant.
Born in New York City, to a Port Authority officer and a hospital clinic manager, she grew up in Queens with three brothers. Brown studied ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:16PM
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"Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War. Despite her service, like ma ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:47PM
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960.
Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1911, and second bache ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:45PM
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Google’s honoring of Frederick Douglass through a doodle on its search page Monday highlights one of America's most prominent abolitionists.
Douglass’ life story and his oral and literary work still stand as defining items in the saga of slavery a ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2016 at 6:31PM
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The case of a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of killing a 16-year-old black girl with a crossbow is being reviewed by the North Carolina Parole Commission, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Russell Hinson, the “Exalted Cyclops” leader of ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 4:02PM
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FLINT, Michigan—Arthur Woodson, a longtime resident, sees great irony in the state’s “Pure Michigan” slogan in efforts to draw visitors in light of the pure hell residents are facing with an unhealthy water supply.
In interviews and in writing, he ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 3:46PM
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In a very honest and informative session, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan sat down for an interview and a dialogue with Alex Jones of Infowars.com (January 20, 2016) ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 3:39PM
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What is Serapis? Origin of JESUS CHRIST
Constantine called the council by summoning all the bishops to discredit Arius, The Council of Nicaea. During the time when this meeting was called upon, there was no mention of Jesus Christ at all; no man ...
Posted Friday, January 29th 2016 at 8:21PM
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