Bilal Ali Productions Remember’s Eubie Blake
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.
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Bilal Ali Productions Remember’s Harriet Tubman
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.”
Bilal Ali Productions Remember’s Frederick Douglass
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 [...]
Bilal Ali Productions Remember’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Thurgood Marshall Photo’s
Posted in Black History on Feb 1st, 2011
Bilal Ali Productions Remember’s Eartha Kill
Posted in Black History on Feb 1st, 2011
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.
Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic
Posted in Black History on Jun 11th, 2010
A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a
young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next
to another unidentified young boy.
Nelson Mandela Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Freedom From Prison
Posted in Black History on Feb 12th, 2010
Africa is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s freedom from prison.
20 years ago on February 20, 1990 Mandela was released from a Cape Town, South Africa prison after being a political prisoner for 27 years