A pioneer in the world of African American music education, Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia on February 18, 1868 to Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and Maria Ann (Alexander) Gibbs. In 1869 her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshal ...
Posted Saturday, February 23rd 2013 at 10:55AM
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Slavery Finally Abolished in Mississippi—Just in Time for Black History Month
It only took 148 years, but black people in Mississippi are officially free. Like officially officially. They probably thought they were, since this is 2013 and all, an ...
Posted Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 10:29AM
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Woman nearly taken in by check scam, warns others to be wary
AMITE, La.-- It came via overnight priority from FedEx -- a check purportedly worth a couple of thousand dollars, about the same amount Jessica Perkins expected in her income tax refund. ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 4:29PM
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In 1943, Euphemia Lofton Haynes earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., thus becoming the first African American Woman Ph. D. in Mathematics.
Born Martha Euphemia Lofton, Euphremia (she rarely used Martha) w ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 7:12PM
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February 19, 2013
Disability campaigners are making a last-ditch appeal for clemency for Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday evening despite a US supreme court ba ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 6:06PM
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Posted on February 13, 2013
By Anthony Kort
UPDATE 2/13/13 1:06pm PST: Authorities have claimed to have found a wallet within the burned down cabin that contained a California Driver’s License with Christopher Dorner’s name on it. This is the th ...
Posted Saturday, February 16th 2013 at 4:35PM
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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 bachel ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 10:42AM
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On February 13, 1970, Joseph Searles became the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange. The Kansas State University graduate was working as an aide for New York City Mayor John Lindsey when he was offered the job as a floor trad ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 12:36PM
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The Black Panthers, Black History Month, and “Domestic Terrorism”
by Ron Jacobs / February 10th, 2013
Once again, it’s Black History Month in the United States. Since the inception of this celebration, its meaning has unfortunately been diminishe ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 11:45AM
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Grace Towns-Hamilton (1907–1992) was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. As executive director of the Atlanta Urban League 1943–1960, Hamilton was involved in issues of housing, health care, schools and voter reg ...
Posted Sunday, February 10th 2013 at 3:47PM
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – In 2013, no one expects to see a man dressed in a Ku Klux Clan robe mid-morning in Center City, Philadelphia.
“I think that’s nonsense,” said one woman on the street.
“He needs to be committed to the jail system,” said anot ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:30AM
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. ...
Posted Friday, February 8th 2013 at 10:18AM
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MISSOURI (KFVS) -Missouri is number one, but it's on a list that no state wants to be on.
According to The National Violence Policy Center, Missouri has the highest rate of African Americans killed, compared to the total African American populati ...
Posted Thursday, February 7th 2013 at 1:12PM
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Over three decades after his death, the immortal words the revered Bob Marley gave the world, continue to inspire.
Protestors around the world, whether those at Occupy Wall St. styled protests or elsewhere, continue to chant "Get Up S ...
Posted Wednesday, February 6th 2013 at 10:17AM
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Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United States medical school.
Born in Detroit, Michi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 11:34AM
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Jackie "Moms" Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was an American standup comedian and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born in Brevard, North Carolina. Altho ...
Posted Saturday, February 2nd 2013 at 5:01PM
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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 Rig ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 11:49AM
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Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 unt ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 11:34AM
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