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Jesse Russell is the pioneer of the field of digital cellular communication. He holds over 100 patents. His patents include: the mobile data telephone, the wireless communication base station, and the multi-network client device for wideband multimedia access to private and public wireless networks. Tweet
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Betty Shabazz, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, and Marion Anderson. Tweet
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Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned and led a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800. Governor James Monroe and the state militia suppressed the rebellion. Gabriel and 26 other enslaved people who participated were hanged. In reaction, the Virginia and other legislatures passed restrictions on free […]
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“Malcolm was led to his position by his vast knowledge of Black history in the United States. He constantly reminded us that the highly praised U.S. Constitution not only did not recognize human rights of Black people; it did not even acknowledge our ancestors as full human beings. To placate southern enslavers concerned about their […]
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In 1897, Andrew Jackson Beard invented the Jenny Coupler, a device that linked train cars together. The apparatus accomplished this via a bumping process which enabled the cars to be linked without using a dangerous manual technique. Tweet
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According to her website, long time educator Marva Collins started her own school (Westside Preparatory School) in Chicago in 1975, after being dissatisfied with the status quo school system. Mrs. Collins biography on her site states that: “During the first year, Marva took in learning disabled, problem children and even one child who had been […]
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Gordon Parks was a staff photographer and writer for Life Magazine for two decades. He shot a wide variety of photos for the magazine, including: sports pictures, pictures of poverty and segregation, a portraits of iconic activists like Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. Tweet
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“Malcolm was courted by high officials…He met Heads of States, and top world leaders. Malcolm was treated as a Statesman and important leader. The Arab Islamic leaders embraced him enthusiastically. The very people who had vast resources of oil were giving Malcolm X special attention, and police escorts. The implications of all this, with a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Happy Birthday Touissant L’Ouverture
On this day in 1743, Touissant L’Ouverture was born. L’Ouverture is a historical revolutionary who is known as the leader of the “Great Haitian Slave Revolt.” Tweet
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