Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Lucius D. Amerson, who in 1966 was elected as the Black Sheriff in the South since Reconstruction...

Sunday, March 01, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating attorney, Buck Colbert 'BC' Franklin, who successfully defended survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre...

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Dr. Inez Phillips Durham, and her daughter, Dr. Jennifer Durham, who made history as the first parent-child duo to earn doctorate degrees from Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology...

Friday, February 27, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, James Weldon Johnson, author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist who composed the Black national anthem 'Life Every Voice and Sing...'

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Andrew Jackson Beard, who invented the 'Jenny Cupler' an automatic railroad car coupler that dramatically reduced serious injuries to railroad workers...

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating Soul singer, Roy Hamilton, the man whose sound was copied by Elvis Presley....

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating 'The Jim Dandy Ski Club' founded in 1958 in Detroit, MI., the oldest Black ski club in the world...

Monday, February 23, 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating fashion designer, Angela Dean, the uncredited designer of Madonna's iconic cone bra worn for the 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour...

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Dr. Edith Irby Jones, the first woman to serve as president of the National Medical Association, a group founded for Black doctors who were not allowed to join the American Medical Association...

Friday, February 20, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating Kyra Harris Bolden the youngest and first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court....

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating Valentine S. Alia, Lawrence B. Brown, Ivy Mannoh, Zachary Obinna Enumah, and Ifeoluwa “Ife” Shoyombo, who have made history at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first all-Black team of residents to lead the trauma center...

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating Ledger Smith who roller skated 685 miles from Chicago to Washington D.C., to attend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream' speech....

Monday, February 16, 2026

Black History Fact


Remembering the 1942 White City skating rink protest in Chicago that kicked off a wave of Black civil rights skate activism, long before the 1960's civil rights movement...

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating athlete, civil rights activist, and social worker, Eroseanna Robinson, who famously refused to stand for the National Anthem at the 1959 Pan American Games...

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Black History Fact


Remembering, Mill Creek Valley, a once-thriving Black neighborhood in St. Louis, MS that was razed by urban renewal to build U.S. Highway 40...

Friday, February 13, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Ona Judge, who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington and who after her escape was one of the only formerly enslaved people to speak openly about her captivity...

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Wendy Hilliard, the first Black rhythmic gymnast to represent the United States globally...

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Charlemae Hill Rollins, children’s book author, literacy advocate and the first Black president of the American Library Association...