by PartinElliot | Sep 20, 2009 | Global African History, Groups & Organizations
Nova Scotia is considered the place of origin of modern ice hockey. The quantity of natural ponds ideal for skating, combined with the British gaming tradition helped facilitate the geographic and social conditions necessary for the development and creation of the...
by ZickWilliamJ | Sep 20, 2009 | African American History, People
Laila Ali, the daughter of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, and Jacqui Frazier, the daughter of former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, became the first women in history to headline a pay-per-view event when they fought on June 7, 2001. It was also the first...
by ZickWilliamJ | Sep 20, 2009 | Global African History, People
Bill Richmond, a.k.a. “The Black Terror”, the first black boxer to gain international recognition, was born in Cuckold’s Town (now Richmondtown), on Staten Island, New York, on August 5, 1763. In 1777 when the English troops held New York during the...
by CrowleyWalterC | Sep 17, 2009 | Global African History, People
Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, the only passenger of known African ancestry who died on the Titanic, was born on May 26, 1889 in Cap Haiten, Haiti. He was the son of a white French army captain and a Haitian woman who was a descendant of Jean-Jacques Dessalines,...
by ClearyDon | Sep 15, 2009 | African American History, Perspectives
Since J. Clay Smith’s publication of Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, it has been taken as gospel that Boston resident Macon Allen in 1844 became was the first African-American admitted to the bar to practice law in the United States. Recently, as part...
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