[…] when the team was called the Harlem Black Bombers, they played the Philadelphia Stars for the Colored Championship of the Nation in Patterson, New Jersey. Despite their loss, the team opened the following season with an eight-game winning streak at Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, […] … Read MoreNew York Black Yankees (1932-1948)
[…] His last public performance was in 2002 when he sang “Someday We’ll Be Together” on a Public Broadcasting Service television special with Mary Wilson of The Supremes. John William “Johnny” Bristol, Sr. died on March 21, 2004, at 65 at St. Joseph Mercy Livingston […] … Read MoreJohnny Bristol (1939-2004)
Dean P. Baquet is primarily known as a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism and the first African American executive editor of the New York Times. Baquet was born on September 21, 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a middle class family which included four other … Read More … Read MoreDean P. Baquet (1956- )
[…] member. Her first play was “A Hand is On the Gate.” She moved on to television in 1974 in the Autobiography of Jane Pittman. Throughout her career, Sutton appeared in over one hundred films and television shows, including playing a policewoman in The Pelican […] … Read MoreCarol Sutton (1944-2020)
[…] access to strategic points in Georgia and Alabama. Horace King’s first wife, Frances Thomas King, died in 1864, and he married Sarah Jane Jones McManus after the end of the Civil War. King’s construction business prospered after the war; he worked to reconstruct bridges, […] … Read MoreHorace King (1807-1885)
[…] at the University of Texas, Austin. Young majored in Sociology with a specialization in Criminology. Two years later he married his wife, Mary, on April 24th, 1976. Young served as a Trooper for 15 years in Austin, Bryan, Eagle Pass, and his hometown, Del […] … Read MoreLee Roy Young Jr. (1947- )
Amílcar Cabral, also known as Abel Djassi, was a leader in the struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral was a writer, agronomic engineer, and Marxist nationalist. He was born on September 12, 1924, in Bafata, Portuguese Guinea. His father, Juvenal Cabral was … Read More … Read MoreAmílcar Lopes Cabral (1924-1973)
Yelena Khanga is a journalist and writer who was born in 1962 in Moscow, Russia. She is the daughter of Abdulla Khanga, who was the onetime vice president of Zanzibar, and Lily Golden, a Russian woman who was a historian and educator. She was also … Read More … Read MoreYelena Khanga (1962- )
[…] black history-too often it’s presented the wrong way. Certainly we must remember our heroes. Yet, an Adam Clayton Powell Jr. or a Mary McLeod Bethune come along only once in a blue moon. We view them in awe, but it can be difficult to […] … Read MoreJohn McWhorter, “Celebrate the Triumph of Ordinary Black Americans”
[…] Bogle, Otto and Verdell Rutherford, and others — 20 more years of work to secure passage of such legislation. Governor Paul L. Patterson finally signed the Oregon Public Accommodations Act into law in 1953. The Reverend Daniel G. Hill, one of Cannady’s contemporaries, described […] … Read MoreBeatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
