62-Year-Old Grandmother Makes History As First Black Person Elected to City Council of St. Louis Suburb, Winning Almost 80 Percent of the Vote
A Black grandmother with two jobs can add her name to Hazelwood, Missouri, history books now that she’s ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2022 at 1:49PM
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On this day: Born April 16, 1947: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
By Rory Carroll
(Reuters) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is often overlooked in the debate over who is the greatest NBA player of all time as names like Michael Jordan, Wilt ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2022 at 1:00PM
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DC Emancipation Day Ending Slavery in the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia, which became the nation’s capital in 1791, was by 1862 a city of contrasts: a thriving center for slavery and the slave trade, and a hub of anti-slavery activ ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2022 at 12:48PM
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Pioneering Woman of American Architecture Norma Merrick Sklarek
BIRTHPLACE
Harlem, New York City
EDUCATION
Barnard College, 1944–45
Columbia University, B.Arch., 1945–50
MAJOR PROJECTS
California Mart, Los Angeles, 1963, Gruen Associates ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2022 at 12:41PM
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WALTER EDWARD WASHINGTON (1915-2003)
BY: TIFFANY L. PRATT
Walter Edward Washington, attorney and politician, was born in Dawson, Georgia, on April 15, 1915 to Willie Mae and William L. Washington. After his mother’s death in 1921, Washington mo ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2022 at 12:16PM
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HAROLD WASHINGTON (1922-1987)
Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago. Washingto ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2022 at 12:08PM
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This Day in History: April 15th
By SHAYLA FARROW
This Day in History: April 15th
Asa Philip Randolph, founder of the March on Washington and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida.
Rand ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2022 at 11:41AM
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This Day in Black History: April 15, 1947
Jackie Robinson helped to break the color barrier in major league baseball.
Jackie Robinson Ends Racial Segregation in Baseball - As the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball, Jackie Rob ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2022 at 11:17AM
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Famous Black Inventors of the 19th- and Early 20th-Centuries
By Mary Bellis
Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, is believed to have been the first African American inventor to receive a patent for an invention. He was 30 years old when he was granted ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2022 at 1:24PM
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(1875) FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER, “THE GREAT PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED”
After the Civil War Frances Ellen Watkins Harper worked among African Americans as a representative of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. From her new position Harper publi ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2022 at 1:08PM
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LAURA RICHARDSON (1962- )
Laura Richardson was the Democratic representative for California’s 37th congressional district. She served from 2007 to 2012.
Richardson was born in Los Angeles on April 14, 1962, to a black father and white mother. H ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2022 at 1:01PM
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