Posted in Black History on Feb 27th, 2010
When the Governor of Maryland sought an attorney to serve on the Judicial Appointments Committee, Governor Ehrlich called Judge Billy Murphy “an attorney who has won more cases in front of more judges in Maryland” a man respected and known across the state for his legal acuity and expertise inside and out of the courtroom.
Posted in Black History on Feb 27th, 2010
Robert Mack Bell (born July 6, 1943) is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1991 he has been a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in Maryland, and its Chief Judge since 1996 and has been a judge at every level in the Maryland Courts system. He is [...]
Posted in Black History on Feb 26th, 2010
When people ask Michelle Obama to describe herself, she doesn’t hesitate. First and foremost, she is Malia and Sasha’s mom.
But before she was a mother — or a wife, lawyer, or public servant — she was Fraser and Marian Robinson’s daughter.
Posted in Black History on Feb 25th, 2010
Muhammad Ali
originally Cassius (Marcellus) Clay, Jr
(1942–)
As he has done every year since its inception, Ali hosted the 15th Annual Celebrity Fight Night Awards in Phoenix in March 2009. The event benefited the Celebrity Fight Night Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.
Posted in Black History on Feb 24th, 2010
Juanita Jackson Mitchell was born on this date in 1913. She was an African-American lawyer, administrator, and activist.
Juanita Elizabeth Jackson was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the daughter of Kieffer Albert Jackson and Dr. Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson. She was the second born of four children.
Posted in Black History on Feb 23rd, 2010
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 23rd, 2010
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 22nd, 2010
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 21st, 2010
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).
Posted in Black History on Feb 20th, 2010
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. Like Jelly Roll Morton before him, he considered himself to be a composer and arranger, rather than just a musician. Duke began playing music professionally in [...]
Posted in Black History on Feb 19th, 2010
Posted in Black History on Feb 19th, 2010
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. Dandridge left high school in the late 1930s and formed the Dandridge Sisters trio with her sister [...]
Posted in Black History on Feb 18th, 2010
Born in the South and raised in Harlem, sultry black actress/singer Eartha Kitt attended New York’s High School of Performing Arts. After touring with Katherine Dunham’s dance troupe, Kitt headlined at choice nightclubs in both Paris and the U.S. She made her acting debut as Helen of Troy in Orson_Welles‘ 1951 staging of Faust.
Posted in Black History on Feb 17th, 2010
Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981
“I love the development of our music, that’s what I
really dig about the whole thing. How we’ve tried
to develop, y’know? It grows. That’s why every day
people come forward with new songs. Music goes on
forever.”
–Bob Marley, August 1979
Posted in Black History on Feb 16th, 2010
From inauspicious and dramatic beginnings, George Washington Carver became one of the nation’s greatest educators and agricultural researchers. He was born in about 1864 (the exact year is unknown) on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Mo. His father died in an accident shortly before his birth, and when he was still an infant, [...]
