by AckermanLauren | Dec 28, 2011 | Global African History, People
The novelist Richard Moore Rive was born March 1, 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa. His mother was Nancy Rive, a black South African woman and his father was Richardson Moore, an African-American ship hand. Moore abandoned his newly-born son, Richard, a few months...
by AckermanLauren | Dec 27, 2011 | Global African History, People
Karen Ann King-Aribisala is a Guyanese-born novelist who was raised and currently resides in Nigeria. She left Guyana as a young child, moving with her parents to Nigeria around the time of the Nigerian Civil war (1967-1970). Her father introduced her to books at an...
by AckermanLauren | Dec 18, 2011 | African American History, People
Jewell Parker Rhodes is an accomplished novelist, nonfiction writer, and professor who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1954. Raised in Pittsburgh, Rhodes moved to California with relatives when she was eight but returned to her home town to begin college at...
by PhillipsChieko | Dec 18, 2011 | African American History, People
Dentist, community leader, and civil rights activist Henry Boyd Hall was born September 12, 1899, in Palestine, Texas. Hall attended Palestine’s Lincoln High School and later Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College, where he graduated as a Doctor of...
by MillsDarhian | Dec 18, 2011 | African American History, People
Founding publisher of the Los Angeles-based African American newspaper, the Sentinel, Leon H. Washington Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas on April 15, 1907. Washington, along with his two other siblings, was born to his parents, Leon and Blanche Washington. Young...
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