Angela Evelyn Bassett is an actress and producer known for her depictions of powerful women in history on stage, television, and in major movies. Bassett was born on August 16, 1958, in New York, New York. After her father, Daniel Benjamin Bassett, and her mother, … Read More … Read MoreAngela Bassett (1958- )
Beginning in the late 1960s, Ruby Duncan led the Welfare Rights Movement in Las Vegas, Nevada. She and her group, the Nevada Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), brought the Federal Food Stamps Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) to … Read More … Read MoreRuby Duncan (1932- )
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist and music educator, was considered the patriarch of the first family of New Orleans jazz. Marsalis passed away on April 1, 2020 of complications from the coronavirus (COVID-19), at the age of 85. He was one of the first … Read More … Read MoreEllis Marsalis (1934-2020)
York was an African American slave best known for his participation in the (Meriwether) Lewis and (William) Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. York was born in Caroline County, Virginia in 1770. York, his father, mother (Rose), and younger sister and brother (Nancy and Juba) were all … Read More … Read MoreYork (1770-1832)
No. 93-1841. Argued January 17, 1995 Decided June 12, 1995 Most federal agency contracts must contain a subcontractor compensation clause, which gives a prime contractor a financial incentive to hire subcontractors certified as small businesses controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and requires the … Read More … Read More(1995) Adarand Constructors, Inc., v. Pena
Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 1, 1949, came from a middle class background. His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was a graduate of Morehouse College, and his mother, Irene was a social worker. Schmoke attended the city’s … Read More … Read MoreKurt L. Schmoke (1949- )
Philip Reid’s Lantern of the Dome of the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. “Image Ownership: Andreas Praefcke” Craftsman Philip Reid is best known as the enslaved African who worked on the casting of the Statue of Freedom which sits atop the Capitol building housing the … Read More … Read MorePhilip Reid (1820-1892)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Juneteenth Minidoc [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]In the article below, historian Quintard Taylor describes the origins and evolution of the Juneteenth holiday since 1865. Any bright high schooler or Constitutional law expert would say that African Americans were formally liberated when the Georgia legislature ratified the 13th Amendment … Read More … Read MoreJuneteenth: The Growth of an African American Holiday (1865- )
In the article below, culinary historian Diane M. Spivey describes the centuries-old diaspora of African foods and cooking traditions in North and South America. Africa has been a major contributor to the cuisine of North and South America although this contribution has long been overlooked, … Read More … Read MoreTransAtlantic Food Migration: The African Culinary Influence on the Cuisine of the Americas
Imari Obadele, black power activist, reparations advocate, and college professor, is best known as co-founder of the Republic of New Afrika. Obadele was born Richard Bullock Henry on May 2, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His homemaker mother, Vera N. Robinson Henry, and his father, Walter … Read More … Read MoreImari Abubakari Obadele, I (1930-2010)
