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Black History Month: Comedian Baratunde Thurston On ‘How To Be Black’
Thurston is the son of a pro-black, pan-African mother. He straddled the worlds between his troubled neighborhood in Washington, D.C., and the elite halls of Harvard University. He speaks with host...
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Black History Month: Allen Allensworth
Allen Allensworth (7 April 1842 – 14 September 1914) was an American soldier and chaplain in the United States Army, a Baptist minister and educator, who had been born into slavery. He escaped by...
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Black History Month: Joseph N. Jackson
Everyone who has enjoyed the use of their programmable VCR, DVR, TIVO, and television remote controllers owes a thank you to Mr. Joseph N. Jackson. Joseph N. Jackson invented a programmable remote...
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Black History Month: Charles Henry Turner
Charles Henry Turner (February 3, 1867 – February 14, 1923) was a prominent research biologist, educator, zoologist, and comparative psychologist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1892, Turner became the...
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Black History Month: Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was a dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. He was the first person shot to death by British redcoats during the Boston Massacre, in Boston,...
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Black History Month: Vonetta Flowers
Vonetta Flowers (born Vonetta Jeffery on October 29, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American bobsledder and athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at...
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Black History Month Events: Beyond Emancipation Exhibit
Presented by Cincinnati Juneteenth CommitteeAn exploration of African-American culture through contemporary art, with works on display representative of the connection between the past and recent...
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Black History Month Events: The Tuskegee Airmen
Presented by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base On July 19, 1941, a program began in Alabama to train African-Americans as military pilots. Primary flight training was at Tuskegee Institute, the school...
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BLACK HISTORY LITTLE KNOWN FACTS – Do you know where the word Jazz comes from?
Jazz, an African–American musical form born out of the Blues, Ragtime, and marching bands originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century. The word Jazz is a slang term that at one point...
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Black History Month: Nathaniel Alexander
Nathaniel Alexander was the first to patent the folding chair. His invention was designed to be used in schools, churches and at large social gatherings. On July 7, 1911 Nathaniel Alexander of...
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Black History Month: Judge Jane Brolin
On the path to becoming the first African-American woman judge in the United States, Jane Bolin earned the distinction of “first” several times. Jane Bolin, the youngest daughter of Gaius C. Bolin and...
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Greensboro 4
On this day in 1960, four brave young men took a stand and ignited the movement to end segregation in America. Hear their story in Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4 Tagged: African American History,...
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BLACK HISTORY: Brown Paper Bag Test
Q: Is the brown bag test real or is it an urban legend? –Jeremy Village, Chicago, Illinois A: I am sad to report that the brown paper bag test was real. It was an example of colorism-discrimination...
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NIKE 2015 BLACK HISTORY MONTH COLLECTION
Nike 2015 Black History Month Collection NIKE, Inc. celebrates Black History Month with a collection of products across basketball, football, running, soccer and skateboarding that honors six athletes...
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ADIDAS x KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR BLACK HISTORY MONTH COLLECTION
adidas x Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Black History Month Collection adidas and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar today unveiled a limited edition Black History Month Collection inspired by the NBA’s all-time leading scorer...
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