Chicago Mother and Son to Graduate From Same College Together
Tonya Williams of Chatham, Illinois, will be graduating alongside her son Aaron Williams, on May 15 at Chicago State University.
Like many parents this season, Tonya Williams will pr ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2023 at 11:35AM
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This Day in Black History: May 15, 2002
Bobby Frank Cherry, the last of the Birmingham church bomb killers to be convicted of murder, was sentenced in 2002.
It took more than a decade to prosecute and convict the three Ku Klux Klan members who bo ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2023 at 10:47AM
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Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)
William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army ...
Posted Monday, May 15th 2023 at 9:42AM
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For Immediate Release From Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, DC!
WHAT: JUNETEENTH/ DAY CULTURAL MASS
WHEN: June 18, 2023
TIME: 10:30 a.m., EST- 12:30 p.m., EST ...
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Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.
Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Four To ...
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Carolyn Robertson Payton (May 13, 1925 – April 11, 2001) was appointed Director of the United States Peace Corps in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first female and the first African American to be Peace Corps Director. Payton was a pione ...
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Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player. Known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities, his biography on the official NBA website states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward ...
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For Immediate Release From OSERS!
New OSEP Funding Opportunities
Below is a listing of new OSEP discretionary funding opportunities in chronological order. Information included is:
ALN The program's Assistance Listing Number (ALN)
Read th ...
Posted Friday, May 12th 2023 at 12:11PM
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For Immediate Release From USDE!
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today announced the 59th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, recognizing 161 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and techni ...
Posted Friday, May 12th 2023 at 11:26AM
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Are You Experienced
Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was an immediate critical and commercial success, and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. The a ...
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This Day in Black History: May 12, 1951
Former congressman Oscar De Priest died of complications from a bus accident on May 12, 1951.
Oscar Stanton De Priest ended a 28-year-long dry spell of Black congressional lawmakers when he was the first Bl ...
Posted Friday, May 12th 2023 at 10:21AM
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For Immediate Release From Huffington Post!
“Teaching is the profession that enables all other professions,” writes Secretary of Education Miguel A. Cardona. “And teachers deserve respect.”
Twenty-five years ago, I was a newly minted college ...
Posted Thursday, May 11th 2023 at 11:26AM
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This Information Is Vitally Important
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“The intention behind the World Economic Forum ...
Posted Thursday, May 11th 2023 at 9:33AM
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Louis Farrakhan (Born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is an American black supremacist and anti-white cult leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI). Prior to joining the NOI, he was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. Earlier ...
Posted Thursday, May 11th 2023 at 8:48AM
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This Day in Black History: May 11, 1981
Bob Marley passed away 40 years ago today.
On May 11, 1981, singer-songwriter Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley died from skin cancer at age 36.
Born on February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile village in Jamaica’s Saint A ...
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when h ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 4:29PM
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Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943) is an American dancer and choreographer. She is the artistic director emerita of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Early training
Judith Jamison was born in 1943 to Tessie Brown Jamison and John Jamison ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 7:50AM
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Merlene Joyce Ottey OJ CD (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978, and continued to do so for 24 years, before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 2012. She is ranke ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 7:40AM
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Kenan Thompson (Born May 10, 1978) is an American comedian and actor. Thompson has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. He was also the fi ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2023 at 7:32AM
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For Immediate Release From USDE!
To mark Public Service Recognition Week, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) today announced that, as of the beginning of May 2023, it has approved a total of $42 billion in Public Service Loan Forgiven ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 3:11PM
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For Immediate Release From NAMI-Georgia!
What is Ending the Silence?
NAMI Ending the Silence is a presentation designed for middle and high school students, school staff, and parents or guardians of middle or high school-aged youth.
Who ca ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 1:50PM
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On May 9, 2010, Lena Horne died in New York City at age 92 of heart failure.
Groundbreaking singer, dancer and actress Lena Horne, 92, died of heart failure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on May 9, 2010.
The legendary performer was the firs ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 8:05AM
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Dennis David Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and a member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough success in the aftermath of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 5:26AM
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This Day in Black History: May 9, 1963
Arthur Wergs Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress, died in Petersburg, Virginia, on May 9, 1963.
Arthur Wergs Mitchell, a U.S. representative from Illinois, was the first African-American ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2023 at 5:01AM
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