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).
Posted in Black History on Feb 24th, 2011
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.
Posted in Black History on Feb 22nd, 2011
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 20th, 2011
When people ask Michelle Obama to describe herself, she doesn’t hesitate. First and foremost, she is Malia and Sasha’s mom.
Posted in Black History on Feb 18th, 2011
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.
Posted in Black History on Feb 17th, 2011
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. (born 18 September 1951) is an American neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008.
Posted in Black History on Feb 13th, 2011
Nelson Mandela born July 18, 1918
Nelson Mandela was born in a small South African village to a local chief and his third wife. He was the first person in his family to receive a western education, and was inspired to study law after witnessing the democracy of African tribal governance at an early age.
Posted in Black History on Feb 12th, 2011
Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred to as a “plantation.”
Posted in Black History on Feb 11th, 2011
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983)[1][2][3] was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
Posted in Black History on Feb 8th, 2011
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad’s “conductors.” During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she “never lost a single passenger.”
Posted in Black History on Feb 7th, 2011
original name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
(born February 1818?, Tuckahoe, Maryland, U.S.—died February 20, 1895, Washington, D.C.) African American who was one of the most eminent human-rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. abolition movement, and he became the first black citizen to hold [...]
Posted in Black History on Feb 6th, 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin.
Posted in Black History on Feb 6th, 2011
Dorothy Height
March 24,1912- April 20,2010
Dorothy Height was born in Richmond Virginia on March 24, 1912 . She was educated in public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town near Pittsburgh where her family moved when she was four.
Posted in Black History on Feb 5th, 2011
Nathaniel Adams Cole [Nat King Cole]
(born March 17, 1917, Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.—died February 15, 1965, Santa Monica, California) American musician hailed as one of the best and most influential pianists and small-group leaders of the swing era. Cole attained his greatest commercial success, however, as a vocalist specializing in warm ballads and light swing.
