Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950), the son of an attorney, became an lawyer himself. In 1922, he graduated from Harvard Law School. He later became a professor at Howard University Law School. During his tenure there, he was instrumental in the law school becoming an accredited learning institution. Charles Hamilton Houston is also credited with laying […]
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Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson was the first woman to pass the Alabama State Medical Examination. She also founded the Nurses’ School and Hospitalat Tuskegee University. Tweet
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Dick Gregory discusses: William Cooper, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston. Tweet
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Richard Spikes was a prolific inventor. Among his inventions were: automobile directional signals, an automatic car washer, an automatic safety brake, a multiple-barrel machine gun, self-locking rack for billiard cues, and a method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids. Tweet
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Dick Gregory discusses Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., what really happened with Dave Chapelle’s “disappearance to Africa,” white supremacy, Bill Cosby’s attempted purchase of NBC, the link between pollution and crime, cannibalism and bath salts. Tweet
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In 1978, Jill Brown became the first African-American woman to fly for a wajor United States commercial airline. Tweet
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On this date in 1914, Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Improvement Association. Also on this date in 1920, Marcus Garvey held the national convention of the UIA. At this convention, Marcus Garvey presented his “Back to Africa” program. Tweet
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“When we get into social amnesia- into forgetting our history- we also forget or misinterpret the history and motives of others as well as our own motives. The way to know other people is to know one’s self. The way to learn of our own creation, how we came to be what we are, is […]
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WLIB was the first African-American owned and operated station in New York. It was owned by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, which was co-founded Hal Jackson and Percy Sutton. Tweet
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“Historiography may function as propaganda- propaganda being an effort to persuade people to a point of view on an issue. History can be used to intimidate. European achievements are inflated and the next thing we know, we are asking ourselves ‘How can we fight this great people?’ We’ve been frightened! They talk about the great […]
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