Juanita J. Craft
Juanita Jewel Craft is an American civil rights advocate and politician. She is an American Hero.
Craft was born Juanita Jewel Shanks in Round Rock, Texas on February 9, 1902. She was the granddaughter of former slaves, and the ...
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Nannie Helen Burroughs
Quick Facts
Significance: Educator and activist
Place of Birth: Orange, VA
Date of Birth: 1879/1880
Place of Death: Washington, DC Date of Death: 1961
Around 1880, Nannie Helen Burroughs was born to a formerly ...
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Thomas Calhoun Walker
Thomas Calhoun Walker was a teacher, lawyer, and government official. Known as Virginia’s “Black Governor”, Calhoun was the first African American to practice law in Gloucester County. He is an American Hero.
Walker was bo ...
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Mr. Ron and Columnist Colbert I. King are wrong!
Our past and present forces us to focus on the future that has to be better than what our past was and our present is right now.
The only hope Black Americans have is in our future! The solution ...
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Cathay Williams
Quick Facts
Significance: Private Cathay Williams was the only woman to serve in the US Army as a Buffalo Soldier
Place of Birth: Independence, Missouri
Date of Birth: September 1842
Place of Death: Trinidad, Colorado D ...
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Eighty-Five Years of Courage, Valor & Heroism
They joined for a better life and to fight for their country. They served valiantly on foreign battlefields and in the face of egregious racism at home. Explore the places throughout the country that t ...
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Monthly Theme: Commemorating 400 Years of African American History
The first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America were brought to Virginia more than 400 years ago. Despite constant adversity throughout American history, African Amer ...
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His first explaination he used a chair as equvilent to God what faith is that when I go to sit in a chair I have faith the chair will support me. A chair and God are not one and the samething because the chair will wear out while God will never w ...
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This Black History Month, let’s focus on the present
By Colbert I. King Columnist Jan. 31, 2020 at 3:29 p.m. CST
When I was coming along, the second week in February was called “Negro History Week” — a time set aside to recognize and celebrate pa ...
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Howard University alum and star of the hit show "Blackish" Anthony Anderson was honored Tuesday night by the Los Angeles chapter of UNCF. In a conversation with entertainment journalist and red carpet Tanisha LaVerne Grant who is an alumna from Cheyn ...
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