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BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryJune 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for June 14.William H. Gray was elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.He graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1959 and enrolled in Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, majoring in sociology.In 1972, Gray succeeded his father as the senior minister at Bright Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia, succeeding not only his father but also his grandfather, who had founded the 4,000-member church. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives i...2022-06-1501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 14.Clara Stanton Jones was born.She was the first African-American president of the American Library Association and the first African American and the first woman to serve as director of a major library system in America, as director of the Detroit Public Library.Jones obtained a well-rounded education even though the St. Louis public school system was completely segregated. She grew up in an entirely African-American world, with black role models and mentors. She began working in libraries the same y...2022-05-1402 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 13 - Blackfacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 13.Stevie Wonder was born.He is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century.Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight and made his recording debut at age 12.Although still only in his mid-20s, Wonder appeared to have mastered virtually every idiom of African-American popular music and to have synthesized them all into a...2022-05-1301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 12 - Blackfacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 12.Ving Rhames was born.He is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Luther Stickell in the "Mission: Impossible" film series and his supporting role as gang kingpin Marsellus Wallace in "Pulp Fiction".He was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. He was named after NBC journalist Irving R. Levine.He entered New York's High School of Performing Arts, where he developed his love of acting. After high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase...2022-05-1201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 11 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 11.William Grant Still was born.He was the first African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the United States. Though a prolific composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works, he was best known for his Afro-American Symphony (1931).He first studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, then under the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Still’s concern with the position of African Americans in U.S. soc...2022-05-1102 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 10 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 10.Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.In 1944, he joined the African National Congress (ANC), a black political organization dedicated to winning rights for the black majority in white-ruled South Africa.In 1948, the racist National Party came to power, and apartheid–South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation–became official government policy.Throughout his 27 years of incarceration, Mandela retained wide support among South Africa’s Black population, and his imprisonment became a...2022-05-1002 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 9 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 9.Tony Gwynn was born.He was an American professional baseball right fielder, who played 20 seasons (1982–2001) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, and considered one of the best and most consistent hitters in baseball history. Gwynn attended San Diego State University (California) on a basketball scholarship, where he set a school record for assists as the team’s point guard. He also excelled at baseball and was drafted in 1981 by both the San Diego Clippers, of the NBA, and by th...2022-05-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 8 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 8.Carole Gist was born.She is an American TV host, model and first African American woman to win the Miss USA title.Throughout her reign as Miss USA, Gist captivated audiences with her stories of being from a single-parent home where she had a number of siblings and having to overcome numerous financial and social obstacles.Despite the financial obstacles she faced growing up, the intelligent young woman still graduated, with honors, from The Cass Technical High School in 1987. She...2022-05-0801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 7.J. R. Winters received a patent for the fire escape ladder.He was born in Leesburg, Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee Indian mother, who was the daughter of a noted herbalist and medical practitioner.In 1830, at the age of 14, he relocated to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. During this time that Winters lived in Chambersburg, a city known for Quaker abolitionist activity, he was active in the Underground Railroad. In the 1870s as buildings became taller, Winters noticed that firemen h...2022-05-0701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 6.President Eisenhower signed civil rights act.(On September 4, 1957, nine African American students were due to enter the school, a previously all-white institution. These students were blocked by 270 National Guard troops who had been ordered there by State Governor, Orval Faubus. )(Media filmed the students being turned away and being verbally abused by students and adults of Little Rock. Shocked by these images which had been aired across the nation, President Eisenhower issued 10,000 paratroopers to escort the black students into their new school.)2022-05-0601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 5.Adam Clayton Powell Sr. was born.He was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members.He was a founder of the National Urban League, active in the NAACP and several fraternal organizations, and served as trustee of several historically black colleges and schools.Powell was ordained a Baptist minister in 1892; he served at churches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New Haven, Connecticut between 1892 a...2022-05-0501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 4.Kimora Lee Simmons was born.She is an American entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV personality, author, philanthropist and model.Kimora was born of African American and Japanese heritage. She attended public school, but when she grew to 5-foot, 8-inches by the time she was ten years old, she became the easy target of schoolyard taunts and teasing.Hoping to boost her confidence, Simmons's mother enrolled her daughter in a modeling class when she was eleven years old. Two years later, at...2022-05-0401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 3.Sugar Ray Robinson was born.He was an American professional boxer, considered by many authorities to have been the best fighter in history.Robinson originally aspired to be a doctor, but after dropping out of High School he switched his goal to boxing.He made his professional debut on October 4, 1940, winning by a second-round stoppage over Joe Echevarria and fought five more times in the same year, winning each time, with four wins coming by way of knockout....2022-05-0301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 2.First game of the Negro National Baseball League.The first viable Black league was formed in 1920 under the leadership of Rube Foster, manager of the Chicago American Giants. He had been Negro baseball’s best pitcher in the early years of the 20th century and then its best-known manager and promoter. Foster wanted black players to be ready when integration finally came. He routinely spoke to players, telling them to always play at the highest level of excellence.The...2022-05-0202 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMay 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 1st.Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.She graduated from Wilson Junior College in Chicago in 1936. Her early verses appeared in the Chicago Defender, a newspaper written primarily for that city’s African American community. Brooks published her first poem, "Eventide", in a children's magazine, American Childhood, when she was 13 years old. By the age of 16, she had already written and published approximately 75 poems. Her characters were often drawn from the inner city life that...2022-05-0101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 30.Michelle Howard was born.She was the first African American woman to command a United States Navy ship. She also became the highest-ranking woman in the United States Armed Forces history.During high school Howard applied to the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and upon entering the academy in 1978, she became one of only seven black women in the school’s class of 1,363 students. She became the first African American woman to lead a U.S. Navy battle group whe...2022-04-3001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 29.Duke Ellington was born.One of the originators of big-band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music.Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.He selected his musicians for their expressive individuality and...2022-04-2901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 28.Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. became the first Black Admiral in the U.S. Navy.He attended Virginia Union University but left before graduating to join the Naval Reserve in 1942.He was commissioned in 1944 and served during World War II onboard USS PC-1264. After the war, Gravely had a brief stint in the civilian world before he was recalled to active duty in 1949. Gravely was recalled to active duty in 1949 and worked as a recruiter in Washington, D.C. before holding b...2022-04-2802 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 27.Coretta Scott King was born.She was an American civil rights activist who was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.She graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and in 1951 enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. While working toward a degree in voice, she met Martin Luther King, Jr., then a graduate theology student at Boston University. Coretta Scott King joined her husband in civil rights activism in the 1950s and ’60s, taking part in...2022-04-2701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 26.Gertrude Ma Rainey was born.She was a singer who was known as the “mother of the blues” and who was recognized as the first great professional blues vocalist.She began her career as a performer at a talent show in Columbus, Georgia, when she was approximately 12 years old. As a member of the First African Baptist Church, she began performing in black minstrel shows.In 1923, Rainey was discovered by Paramount Records producer J. Mayo Williams. She signed a recording cont...2022-04-2601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 25.United Negro College Fund was founded.It is is a philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for Black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically Black colleges and universities.The organization awards 10,000 students annually through 400 scholarship and internship programs, so that students from low-and moderate-income families can afford college tuition, books and room and board.In 1943, Frederick D. Patterson wrote a letter to The Pittsburgh Courier proposing the creation of an alliance of black colleges that would raise money for...2022-04-2502 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 24 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 24.Mathematician David Blackwell was born.He made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics.He also broke racial barriers when he was named the first African American member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.At age 16 he entered the University of Illinois, where his early aptitude for mathematics blossomed.He earned bachelor’s (1938), master’s (1939), and doctorate (1941) degrees, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.2022-04-2402 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 23 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 23.Inventor Granville T. Woods was born.He was known for devising a number of new electrical devices for the railroads. His inventions helped make rail travel safer and faster.Woods studied engineering at night school and became a steam locomotive engineer. He earned his first patent in 1884 for an improved steam boiler furnace.By 1878, he had become an engineer on the Ironsides, a British steamship. Within two years, he had become the ship's chief engineer.In all of...2022-04-2301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 22 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 22.Bob Marley One Love Concert.It was a large concert held at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, and was held during a political civil war between opposing parties Jamaican Labour Party and the People's National Party.With tensions rising, both parties hired local gang members for protection. Ironically, it was the gang members who came up with idea of the One Love Concert. They wanted the fighting to stop. It brought together 16 of Reggae's biggest acts, and was dubbed b...2022-04-2201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 21 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 21.Prince passed away.He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer among the most talented American musicians of his generation.Prince’s recording career began with funk and soul marketed to a Black audience; his early music also reflected the contemporary musical impact of disco.With very few African American residents, his hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an unlikely site for the development of a major Black star, but Prince even managed to lead other local musicians, to major success....2022-04-2101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 21 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 21.Prince passed away.He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer among the most talented American musicians of his generation.Prince’s recording career began with funk and soul marketed to a Black audience; his early music also reflected the contemporary musical impact of disco.With very few African American residents, his hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an unlikely site for the development of a major Black star, but Prince even managed to lead other local musicians, to major success....2022-04-2101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 20 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 20.The United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.The Burger Court in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education ruled that the school district must achieve racial balance even if it meant redrawing school boundaries and the use of busing as a legal tool. In 1954, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.However, many neighborhood schools remained segregated due to t...2022-04-2002 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 19 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 19.Max Robinson became the 1st African-American journalist to anchor a nightly network newscast.Robinson’s first journalism job began and ended in 1959, when he was hired to read news at a Portsmouth, Va., television station. In 1978, when Roone Arledge was looking to revamp ABC News' nightly news broadcast into World News Tonight, he remembered Robinson from a 60 Minutes interview and hired him to be a part of his new three-anchor format.Robinson's ABC tenure was marked by conflicts between himself and...2022-04-1901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 18 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 18.The American Nicodemus Town Company is founded.It is the only remaining western community established by African Americans after the Civil War.Having an important role in American History, the town symbolizes the pioneering spirit of these ex-slaves who fled the war-torn South in search of real freedom and a chance to restart their lives. The townsite of Nicodemus was planned in 1877 by W.R. Hill, a land developer from Indiana, and Reverend W.H. Smith, a black man, forming t...2022-04-1801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 17 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 17.Ralph Abernathy passed away.He was a pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King’s chief aide and closest associate during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s.He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1948 and preached his first sermon on Mother's Day. In 1950 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.After the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, Abernathy collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA),which organized the Montgomery bus...2022-04-1801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 16 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 16.Birthday of Essex Hemphill.He was an influential poet, award-winning editor, memorable performance artist, and fearless activist.Hemphill's first books were the self-published chapbooks "Earth Life" (1985) and "Conditions" (1986). His poetry evoked the challenges of being black, gay and young in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.Despite a relatively short literary career, Hemphill became arguably the most critically acclaimed and best known openly gay contemporary African American poet.He received fellowships from the National Endowment for th...2022-04-1601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 15 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 15.Birthday of Norma Merrick Sklarek.She was the first African American woman to pass her license exam to officially become an architect in both New York and California.Sklarek graduated from Columbia in 1950 with a B.Arch., one of two women and the only African American in her class.After this, she faced discrimination in her search for work as an architect, applying to and being rejected by nineteen firms.In 1959, she became the first African American woman...2022-04-1501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 14 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 14.Tiger Woods wins Third Masters Golf Tournament.He is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and one of the most famous athletes of all time. He has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.Following an outstanding junior, college, and amateur golf career, Woods turned professional in 1996 at the age of 20.He reached number one in the world rankings for the first time in June 1997, less than a year after turning p...2022-04-1401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 13 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 13.The Colfax Massacre.During the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, the South was in turmoil. Many Republican politicians, who controlled the federal government, wanted equality for African Americans.In 1872 a bitterly contested election for Louisiana governor left both Republicans and Democrats declaring their candidate the winner.Federal troops and a Black militia supported the Republicans, while the Democrats formed a militia made up of local white residents including members of the Ku Klux Klan and other w...2022-04-1301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 9 - BlackFacts MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 9.Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress.She was an American musical theatre and film actress, remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals "South Pacific" as Bloody Mary and "Flower Drum Song" as Madame Liang.Prior to her acting roles, she assembled her own chorus group and kept busy with performances in concert, on records, in films, and on the air. Hall’s tel...2022-04-1201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 12 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 12.Josephine Baker passed away.She was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film "Siren of the Tropics".Although based in France, Baker supported the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s.She refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States, although she was of...2022-04-1201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 11 - BlackFacts Black History MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 11.Birthday of chemist Percy Julian.He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols.He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of a railway mail clerk and the grandson of enslaved people.Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American students.He graduated in 1920 as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian.2022-04-1101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 10 - BlackFacts MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 10.Howard Thurman passed away.He was an American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation in the United States.Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.Thurman traveled broadly, heading Christian missions and meeting with world...2022-04-1001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 9 - BlackFacts MinuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 9.Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress.She was an American musical theatre and film actress, remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals "South Pacific" as Bloody Mary and "Flower Drum Song" as Madame Liang.Prior to her acting roles, she assembled her own chorus group and kept busy with performances in concert, on records, in films, and on the air. H...2022-04-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 02 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayHe was a singer and recording artist who came to be known as the “Prince of Soul”.He was raised by his father “Reverend Marvin Gaye Sr.” who was a very strict guardian. At the age of 17, Gaye left his home, quit high school and enlisted in the United States Air Force with dreams of becoming a pilot.His first success came in 1962 as co-writer of a hit song performed by the band “The Marvelettes”. His first solo hit was the single “Hitch Hike” released in 1962 which reached No. 30 on the Hot 100.He also wrote polit...2021-04-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryApril 01 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayThe World Festival of Black Arts (French: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres), also known as FESMAN, is a month-long culture and arts festival that takes place in Africa. The festival features poetry, sculpture, painting, music, cinema, theatre, fashion, architecture, design and dance from artists and performers from around the African Diaspora. The festivals were planned as Pan-African celebrations, and ranged in content from debate to performance — particularly dance and theatre.The First World Festival of Black Arts or World Festival of Negro Arts was held in Dakar, Senegal, 1–24 April 1966, initiated by former President Leop...2021-04-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 31 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 31, Toni Morrison wins the Pulitzer. She was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. In the late 1960s, Morrison became the first Black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. She became noted for her examination of the Black experience within the Black community. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved"; she gained worldwide recognition when she was awardedthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to win this award.BlackFacts.com...2021-03-3101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 30, The 15th Amendment was ratified and gave blacks the right to vote. In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions who had been enslaved. After surviving a difficult ratification fight, the amendment was certified as duly ratified and part of the Constitution. Women would not receive that right until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black his...2021-03-3001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryWilma Rudolph - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenWilma Rudolph was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international icon in track and field. Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg) on June 23, 1940, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was able to overcome several early childhood illnesses, including pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio. She enrolled at Tennessee State University in Nashville in 1958. She won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. She also won three gold medals, at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Rudolph was known as the fastest woman in the world in the...2021-03-2901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 29 is the birthday of Pearl Bailey. She was an American entertainer notable for her sultry singing and mischievous humor. A nightclub performer, Bailey shared the stage with entertainers such as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington.Bailey also had a television career and even hosted her own show, “The Pearl Bailey Show.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a da...2021-03-2901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryDiane Nash - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenDiane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.Nash was born in 1938 and raised in Chicago. After finishing Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Diane Nash went to Washington, D.C., to attend Howard University. She then went on to major in English at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Nash's campaigns included the first successful civil rights action to integrate lunch counters in Nashville.She is co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).BlackFacts.com i...2021-03-2801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 28, Bill Russell became the first African American to coach an NBA team. During his career, Russell supported the American civil rights movement, and spoke out against the Vietnam War. He won 11 NBA titles in the 13 seasons that he played with the Boston Celtics, and then he was named the player-coach of the Celtics in 1966. In 2011, Barack Obama awarded Russell the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments on the court and in the Civil Rights Movement.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast sto...2021-03-2801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 27, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters was founded. Founded in Boston, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters works to promote, cultivate, and preserve the work of African, African-American, and Caribbean artists in the fields of literature, fine arts, performing arts, visual arts, and cinema. The organization grew out of the American Negro Academy (ANA), which was established in 1897 to publish scholarly works, foster higher education, and promote literature, science, and art by and among African Americans. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the...2021-03-2701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryOdetta Holmes - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenOdetta Holmes was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 31, 1930. As an important figure in the American folk music of the 50s and 60s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.Time magazine included her recording of "Take This Hammer" on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan.”...2021-03-2601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 26, William H. Hastie became the first Black federal judge.After graduating with a degree in mathematics from Amherst College in 1925, Hastie taught at the Bordentown Manual School before going on to Harvard University to receive a law degree in 1930.He began his federal career as a solicitor for the Department of the Interior in 1933. Upon the recommendation of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes,Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hastie to the U.S. District Court in the Virgin Islands.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our...2021-03-2601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarian Anderson - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenMarian Anderson was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson was born in Philadelphia on February 27, 1897. On January 7, 1955, Anderson became the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. During her life, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Si...2021-03-2501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 25 is the Birthday of Aretha Franklin.As a young teen, Franklin performed with her father on his gospel programs in major cities throughout the country and was recognized as a vocal prodigy. She moved to New York City, where Columbia Records executive John Hammond arranged her recording contract.Her first recording session where she sang “Today I Sing the Blues” (1960) remains a classic.As the nation turned towards civil rights, and Black urban music grew in popularity, Franklin was crowned the “Queen of Soul." “Respect,” her 1967 cover of Otis Redding’s spirited composition...2021-03-2501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMahalia Jackson - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenMahalia Jackson, born Mahala Jackson, was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. As a child, Mahalia found a home in her church, where Mahalia delivered God's word through song. She moved to Chicago as an adolescent and joined the Johnson Singers, one of the earliest gospel groups. Jackson was heavily influenced by blues singer Bessie Smith. Nationwide recognition came for Jackson in 1947 with the release of "Move On Up a Little Higher," selling two million copies and hitting the number two spot on Billboard charts. 2021-03-2501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 24 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayHalle Berry became the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.Film roles in "Jungle Fever" (1991), directed by Spike Lee, and in "Boomerang" (1992), directed by Reginald Hudlin, first brought her notice.She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in "Monster's Ball"(2001), becoming the first African-American woman to win the award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been ser...2021-03-2401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 23 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 23, Patricia Roberts Harris passed away.She was the first African American woman named to a U.S. ambassadorship and the first as well to serve in a presidential cabinet.In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed her co-chairman of the National Women's Committee for Civil Rights. She worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign. Soon after his victory, President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1965 to 1967.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts...2021-03-2301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryCondoleezza Rice - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenCondoleezza "Condi" Rice, born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In President Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Secretary of State. She was the second female secretary of state, after Madeleine Albright.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Fact...2021-03-2201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 22 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 22 is the Birthday of George BensonIn the late 1960s he sat in on Miles Davis' "Miles in the Sky sessions," and also put a personal spin on the tunes from the Beatles' "Abbey Road."Benson has won ten Grammy Awards and often plays the dual role of expert improviser and vibrant entertainer. Rounding out his singular approach with a strong sense of swing, he is considered one of the greatest guitarists in jazz.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black...2021-03-2201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBarbara Jordan - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenBarbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African-American state senator since 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that legislative body. President Bill Clinton said that he had wanted to nominate Jordan for the United States Supreme Court, but Jordan’s health problems prevented him from nominating her.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podc...2021-03-2101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 21 - Blackfacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 21, James Baskett becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.He was an American actor and singer, known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in the 1946 Disney animated feature film "Song of the South." Baskett became the first live actor to be hired by Walt Disney.In recognition of his portrayal of the famous black storyteller, Baskett was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first black male performer to receive an Oscar.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast s...2021-03-2101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryLena Horne - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenLena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theatre.In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942). She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, student non-violent coordinating committee and the National Council of Negro Women.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast st...2021-03-2001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 20 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 20 is the Birthday of Rosetta Tharpe.She was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist who attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture that was a precursor of rock and roll.At the age of 23, Tharpe recorded for the first time. Her songs caused an immediate furor: many churchgoers were shocked by the mixture of gospel-based lyrics and secular-sounding music, but secular audiences loved them.She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and...2021-03-2001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBessie Coleman - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenBessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native-American to hold a pilot license. She was born on January 26, 1892, the tenth of thirteen children of George Coleman, whose grandparents were Cherokee, and Susan Coleman, who was African-American.At the age of 23, Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois and took a couple of jobs at the same time, to save money in hopes of becoming a pilot. On November 20, 1920, she traveled to Paris and could earn her pilot license. In 1926 Bessie Coleman’s dream of opening a Flying School was...2021-03-1901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 19 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 19, Jan E. Matzeliger patented his revolutionary shoe machine.Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of 19 and after about six years settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine.Matzeliger obtained a patent for his invention of an automated shoe laster in 1883, which not only revolutionized the shoe industry but made Lynn, Massachusetts, the "shoe capital of the world."BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast...2021-03-1901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryFlo Kennedy - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenFlorynce Rae Kennedy was an American lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and activist.Kennedy remembered a time in her childhood when her father had to be armed with a shotgun in order to ward off the neighborhood Ku Klux Klan.After getting her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1951, Kennedy opened her own office, doing matrimonial work, and some assigned criminal cases.She dedicated life to her law career and defending civil rights on “a pathologically, institutionally racist, sexist and classist society.” BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black...2021-03-1801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 18 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 18 is the Birthday of Vanessa Williams.She initially gained recognition as the first woman of African-American descent to receive the Miss America title in 1983.In addition to singing and performing, Williams has had a successful career in films and television. For her role in the romantic comedy Soul Food (1997), Williams earned an NAACP Image Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up...2021-03-1801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryAudrey Lorde - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenAudrey Geraldine Lorde was a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior and poet." Lorde was born in New York City on February 18, 1934. She attended Hunter College, and graduated in the class of 1959. In 1961, she furthered her education at Columbia University, earning a master's degree in library science. In 1980, together with Barbara Smith and Cherríe Moraga, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color. From 1991 until her death, she was the New York State Poet Laureate. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encycl...2021-03-1701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 17 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 17, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to earn an International Grandmaster chess title. Ashley was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica, and then moved to the United States when he was 12. He soon took up chess and excelled at the game, becoming a national master in 1986 and an International Master in 1993.From 1991 to 1997 Ashley was the chess director of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc., where he led teams to three scholastic national championships.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of B...2021-03-1701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryPhillis Wheatley - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenPhillis Wheatley Peters, whose name was also spelled Phyllis Wheatly, was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.Born in West Africa in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was enslaved by the Wheatley family of Boston.The family afforded Phillis an education strongly influenced by the books of Milton, Homer, Horace, and Virgil. With the publication of Wheatley's book, Poems on Various Subjects, she "became the most famous African on the face of the earth.” BlackFacts.com is...2021-03-1601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 16 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 16 is the Birthday of Rebecca Cole. In 1867, Rebecca J. Cole became the second African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended the Institute for Colored Youth, graduating in 1863. Cole practiced medicine for fifty years, unfortunately, only a few records and photos of her have survived.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been ser...2021-03-1601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 15 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 15 is the Birthday of writer Ben Okri.He is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth.His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991, making him the youngest ever winner of the prize at the age of 32.His first-hand experiences of civil war in Nigeria are said to have inspired many of his works. He has been compared favorably to authors such as Salmon Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez....2021-03-1501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryDorothy Height - BlackFacts.com Showcase of Inspiring Black WomenDorothy Irene Height was an American civil rights and women’s rights activist. She focused on the issues of African American women, including, illiteracy and voter awareness.Height earned an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in educational psychology at New York University. She pursued further postgraduate work at Columbia University. She became President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1958 and remained in that position until 1990. Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1994. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summari...2021-03-1501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 14 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayOn March 14, Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.The youngest of 20 children, Fannie Lou was working the fields with her sharecropper parents at the age of six. Amid poverty and racial exploitation, she received only a sixth-grade education.Her civil rights activism began in August 1962, when she answered a call by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for volunteers to challenge voter registration procedures that excluded African Americans.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts...2021-03-1401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryClaudette Colvin - BlackFacts.com Showcases Inspiring Black WomenClaudette Colvin is a retired American nurse aide who, on March 2, 1955, was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Sin...2021-03-1401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistorySeptima Poinsette Clark: BlackFacts.com Womens ShowcaseSeptima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement."Clark graduated from high school in 1916. She was able to return to school in Columbia to complete her B.A. at Benedict in 1942 and then she received her M.A. from Hampton. In 1956, she became Vice President of the Charleston NAACP branch. Clark claimed that women being treated unequally was “one of the greatest weaknesses of the civil rights movement." BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black...2021-03-1301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryMarch 13 - BlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the DayMarch 13 is when the first Black Daily Newspaper was published.Founded by William A. Scott III in August 1928 as semi-weekly publication, the Atlanta Daily World would become the first successful African-American daily newspaper in the United States. On March 13, 1932, the Atlanta Daily World newspaper began running as a daily publication and was the first paper to send an assigned correspondent to the White House. Reporter Harry S. Alpin became the first person of African American descent to cover the White House on February 8, 1944.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black His...2021-03-1301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Womens Showcase - Mary Church TerrellMary Church Terrell was one of the first Black-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.Terrell majored in Classics at Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to accept African- American and female students. She began her career in education in 1885, teaching modern languages. In 1892, Terrell along with some other prominent women, formed the Colored Women's League in Washington, D.C. Terrell's, autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, accounts her personal experiences with racism. She died at the...2021-03-1201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 12March 12 is the Birthday of Andrew Young. Young graduated from Howard University in 1951 and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut in 1955. A pastor at several black churches in the South, Young was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Young was the first African American to hold the position. As mayor of Atlanta, elected in 1981, Young brought in $70 billion of new private investment.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black His...2021-03-1201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Ida B WellsIda Bell Wells-Barnett was born into slavery at the Bolling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. She was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War and went on to become one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This American investigative journalist and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper became one of the most famous Black women in the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in d...2021-03-1101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 11March 11 is the Birthday of Edward R. Dudley. In 1949, Edward R. Dudley was the first African American to hold the rank of ambassador. His legacy also includes a long history of civil rights activism and a distinguished career as an attorney.Dudley was a civil rights lawyer in the 1940s, appointed to the New York Attorney General’s Office. He was then recruited by Thurgood Marshall to become a Special Assistant at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1948, President Harry Truman sent Dudley to Liberia as a U.S. Envoy...2021-03-1101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Toni MorrisonChloe Anthony Wofford Morrison known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Morrison’s works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States.On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Bla...2021-03-1001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 10On March 10, Timothy Zachary Mosley was born--aka Timbaland. The rapper-producer began to learn how to use studio equipment under the direction of producer and musician DeVante Swing at the age of 19.Timbaland received three Grammy Awards for his work with Justin Timberlake. He also earned a Grammy for his contributions to Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History F...2021-03-1001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. She was six weeks old when her family moved to Chicago, and from then on, it remained her home.She published her first poem, "Eventide," in the magazine “American Childhood” when she was 13 years old. By the age of 16, she had already written and published approximately 75 poems.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has...2021-03-1001 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 9On March 9, Walter Francis White was named National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive secretary. He retained the role for almost a quarter of a century.White waged a long and ultimately successful campaign against the lynching of blacks by white mobs in the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of...2021-03-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Alice WalkerBorn to parents who were sharecroppers, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. She’s the author of the multi-award winning book “The Color Purple.” She published “The Color Purple” in 1982 and received in 1983 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to...2021-03-0901 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 8On March 8, Marjorie Edwina Pitter King was born.In 1944 she established a successful tax business called M and M Tax and Consultant Services. King was extremely active in politics, and was appointed to the State Legislature in 1965, becoming the first African American in the legislative body.She operated her tax business for nearly 50 years.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black His...2021-03-0801 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Alice Coachman DavisAlice Coachman Davis was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.She attended Tuskegee Preparatory and Albany State College, and went from cleaning sports facilities to becoming a teacher and track-and-field instructor, to dominating in the high jump to become an Olympic gold medalist.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of us...2021-03-0701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 7The single We Are the World is the eight best-selling physical single of all time. With more than 20 million copies sold, the song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie raised money for African famine relief. The recording brought together the most popular artists of its time, such as Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, and Ray Charles amongst many others.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been ser...2021-03-0701 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 6As a high-school senior in San Antonio, Texas, Shaquille O’Neal attracted the attention of college recruiters when his team won the state championship. O’Neal attended Louisiana State University. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star Game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000).BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily b...2021-03-0601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Mary McLeod BethuneHosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American educator Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. Born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been enslaved, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. She went on to have a career as an educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist and civil rights activist. Bethune is the founder of the National Council for Negro Women, as well as the first Black Hospital in Daytona, Florida.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black his...2021-03-0601 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 5On March 5, The American Negro Academy was founded by Alexander Crummell. It was the first organization in the United States to support African-American academic scholarship and operated from 1897 to 1928. Some of the most highly educated and socially prominent African Americans and other students of African descent attended.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to mill...2021-03-0500 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Sarah VaughanHosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American jazz singer Sarah Lois Vaughan. She was nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One” and won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.Born in Newark, NJ, Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing on 52nd Street in New York City at the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat, and the Onyx Club.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, Blac...2021-03-0501 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Sojourner TruthIsabella "Belle" Baumfree was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.In May 1851, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as "Ain't I a Woman?”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of T...2021-03-0401 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 4On March 4, Ida Gray, the first African-American woman to become a dentist in the U.S.A., was born. Gray had a 40-year career as a dentist and became the first Black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social medi...2021-03-0400 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the Day - March 3Thomas L. Jennings was the first Black man to receive a patent. The patent, awarded March 3, 1821, was for his discovery of a process called dry-scouring which was the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning. Jennings was a tailor and passionate abolitionist who opened a dry cleaning business in New York City. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily...2021-03-0300 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Womens Showcase - Rosa ParksRosa Louise McCauley Parks, an American activist during the civil rights movement, but is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. On Thursday, December 1, 1955 she was arrested after refusing to move to the colored section of the bus.The United States Congress has called Ms. Parks “The First Lady of Civil Rights.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black Histor...2021-03-0301 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackfacts.com Black Women Showcase - Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song. Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, and made her most important debut at age 17 on November 21, 1934, in one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater.Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammy Awards, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up B...2021-03-0201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the day March 2Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce the history of Howard University. This HBCU was founded with a special obligation to provide advanced studies for Blacks. Prominent alums include Ralph Bunche, Toni Morrison, and Kamala Harris, current vice president of the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and v...2021-03-0201 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Fact of the day-March 1Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce writer Ralph Ellison, born on March 1. The American novelist is best known for his novel Invisible Man, 1953 fiction winner of the National Book Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History....2021-03-0101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black Women Showcase - Billie HolidayBillie Holiday is today’s featured episode as BlackFacts.com presents Significant Women in Black History—a special daily showcase for Women’s History Month.Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia. She was an American jazz and swing music singer whose 26-year career saw her rise to the top of the charts.In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. A month after she was hired by Artie Shaw. She’s among the first Black women to work with a white orchestra.At age 44, “Lady Day" died i...2021-03-0101 min
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black HistoryBlackFacts.com Black History Fact of the Day - Introduction - Episode 0In this episode we introduce our BlackFacts.com podcast.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Since 1997, we have been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Now our daily podcast features the vast stories of Black history in bite-sized episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™. Learn Black History. Teach Black History. https://blackfacts.comBecause Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!If you...2021-03-0101 min