by PowerDesmond | Sep 30, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Barber-Scotia College is a coed liberal arts school founded by the Presbyterian Church in July 1867 by Reverend Luke Dorland as Scotia Seminary. Reverend Dorland was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church to create an institution to train black women in programs of...
by HansonMarianne | Sep 28, 2010 | African American History, People
John Kenneth Blackwell, better known as Ken Blackwell, served as Ohio’s Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007. As a member of the Republican Party, he consistently advocated a conservative platform. Born on February 28, 1948, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Blackwell...
by JonesJames | Sep 28, 2010 | Global African History, Places
Kampala is the largest city and the capital of Uganda. In 2006 its population was approximately 1,189,000. The city was built over the old capital of the Buganda Kingdom located on Mengo Hill. Some buildings from the Kingdom still survive in the city such as the...
by HansonGayleW | Sep 24, 2010 | African American History, People
Preston Wilcox (left) with Unidentified Man Image Courtesy of Harlem Heritage Preston Wilcox, human rights activist and professor, was a proponent of black studies and advocated community control over education. He was born in 1923 and raised in Youngstown, Ohio along...
by AuslanderMark | Sep 24, 2010 | African American History, People
Scholar and historian Helen Grey Edmonds was the first African American woman to earn a doctoral degree from Ohio State University and the first Black woman to second the nomination for a candidate for President of the United States. Edmonds was born December 3, 1911...
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