Posted in Black History on Feb 9th, 2012
Singer, actress. Born November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Dandridge’s mother, the actress Ruby Dandridge, urged her two young daughters into show business in the 1930s, when they performed as a song-and-dance team billed as “The Wonder Children.
Posted in Black History on Feb 8th, 2012
Duke Ellington brought a level of style and sophistication to Jazz that it hadn’t seen before. Although he was a gifted piano player, his orchestra was his principal instrument.
Posted in Black History on Feb 7th, 2012
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family’s eight children
Posted in Black History on Feb 6th, 2012
Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
Posted in Black History on Feb 5th, 2012
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough, Philadelphia, April 7, 1915 – New York City, July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.. She spent much of her young life in Baltimore, Maryland.
Posted in Black History on Feb 4th, 2012
Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered ] at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state’s Delta region, after reportedly whistling at a white woman.
Posted in Black History on Feb 3rd, 2012
Clarence H. “Du” Burns (September 13, 1918 – January 12, 2003)
Clarence H. Du Burns, a self-made politician who rose through grass-roots involvement in his native East Baltimore to become the city’s first African-American mayor.
Posted in Black History on Feb 2nd, 2012
Early Sunday, September 15, 1963, Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss, members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group
Posted in Black History on Feb 1st, 2012
Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson
of a slave. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation
Posted in Black History on Feb 28th, 2011
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Posted in Black History on Feb 27th, 2011
Alex Haley
(1921–1992)
(born August 11, 1921, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died February 10, 1992, Seattle, Washington) American writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted the struggles of African Americans.
Posted in Black History on Feb 26th, 2011
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is too old to box these days. He doesn’t even watch it and thinks it’s “sort of barbaric.”
Posted in Black History on Feb 26th, 2011
Madeline Wheeler Murphy (October 24, 1922 – July 8, 2007) was a well known African-American communityactivist, civil rights champion, advocate for the poor, and panelist on the Baltimore television show Square Off.
Posted in Black History on Feb 25th, 2011
Sheila Ann Dixon (born December 27, 1953) served as the forty-eighth Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. When former Mayor Martin O’Malley was sworn in as Governor on January 17, 2007, Dixon, a Democrat, became mayor and served out the remaining year of O’Malley’s term.
Posted in Black History on Feb 25th, 2011
Marcus Garvey
(1887–1940)
Social activist. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey on August 17, 1887 in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. Largely self-educated, he worked as a printer in Jamaica, edited several short-lived newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama, then founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica (1914).
