by BernalAudry | Dec 30, 2011 | African American History, People
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on August 27, 1959, Jennifer Carroll is the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Florida. Carroll was the first African-American woman elected to the position after taking office on January 4, 2011. Carroll served for over seven years as a...
by AckermanLauren | Dec 30, 2011 | Global African History, People
Maxine Case is an accomplished novelist from Cape Town, South Africa. Her mother, Dianne Case, is an author of children’s books and her sister Bonita Case writes as well. Her debut novel, All We Have Left Unsaid, was published in 2006 by Kwela Books. In 2007 she won...
by BlueChristopher | Dec 30, 2011 | African American History, People
Donald Hamilton Barden was one of the nation’s most successful black businessmen and the first black owner of a major Las Vegas Casino. He earned most of his wealth through the casino, cable television, and real estate industries. He also started a record company,...
by MillsDarhian | Dec 30, 2011 | African American History
Dr. John Quill Taylor King Sr., U.S. Army general and college president, was born on September 25, 1921, in Memphis, Tennessee. King’s father, John Quill Taylor, who had graduated from Meharry Medical College, served as a medical doctor in the U.S. Army while King’s...
by AckermanLauren | Dec 28, 2011 | Global African History, People
The author Ben Okri was born March 15, 1959 in the small town of Minna in northern Nigeria. His mother, Grace Okri, was of the Igbo ethnic group while his father, Silver Oghekeneshineke Loloje Okri was an Urhobo. Ben’s father was a clerk with Nigerian Railways until...
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