A civil rights activist responsible for founding three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He later established America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cameron is also the only known ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 6:44AM
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He was a Buffalo soldier who fought in WW1, earned 11 degrees, and practiced law right up until he was 106 years old. Finney was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States, taking the record from Rush Limbaugh I (1891-1996) w ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 6:38AM
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James Edward Maceo West
Is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962 while developing instruments for human hearing research. Nearly 90 percent of more than two billion m ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 6:34AM
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TEAM NBK'S LOGYC Presents:
Robert Reed Church (June 18, 1839 – August 29, 1912) was an Black entrepreneur, businessman and landowner in Memphis, Tennessee. BLACK POWER in the 1800's, he began his rise during the American Civil War. He was the fir ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2018 at 11:27AM
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TRUTHSTORIAN and RA BORN have a great build on how European Missionaries Christianized Africa and also the Missionary connection to Black Colleges.
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Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2018 at 11:58AM
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The Anita Bush Players
Also known as the Anita Bush All-Colored Dramatic Stock Company was organized by Actor Anita Bush in New York City in 1915. An actor, dancer, and producer, Anita Bush turned to drama after a back injury ended her dancing car ...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th 2018 at 11:00AM
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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enfo ...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th 2018 at 10:55AM
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Willa Beatrice Brown, the first Black woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol in 1937. She and her husband, Cornelius Coffey, founded a fully accredited flying school at Harlem Airfield, near Chicago. The school pro ...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th 2018 at 10:52AM
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Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles.
Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win ...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th 2018 at 10:43AM
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NBK member Kedrick Smith of A.A.C. (African Action Commission) gives a quick overview of what they are doing in the community. They had an excellent turn out ... Many thanks to all those in attendance! Be sure to visit and like the Facebook page for events and updates! #AAC https://www.facebook.com ...
Posted Saturday, April 21st 2018 at 8:57PM
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Augusta Savage (Feb 29, 1892 – March 26, 1962)
An African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher and her studio was important to the careers of a rising generation of artists who would become nationally ...
Posted Friday, April 20th 2018 at 7:40PM
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Priceless photo of enslaved Selina Gray who was the head housekeeper for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. She is credited with defending Arlington House during the Civil War and thereby saving treasured heirlooms belonging to George Washington.
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Posted Friday, April 20th 2018 at 7:16PM
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