by YaredEphrem | Apr 30, 2012 | African American History, People
LeRoy Homer Jr., the co-pilot of United Airlines Flight #93, was born on August 27, 1965, in Long Island, New York. Homer and his three sisters were raised on Long Island by their German mother, Ilse, and their African-American father, who died from a stroke when...
by CoopermanHillel | Apr 23, 2012 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Combahee River Collective, founded by black feminists and lesbians in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, was best known for its Combahee River Collective Statement. This document was one of the earliest explorations of the intersection of multiple oppressions,...
by Jones-BranchCherisse | Apr 21, 2012 | African American History, Perspectives
In the article below historian Robin Dearmon Muhammad discusses the growth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) or the Garvey Movement in the American West, with particular emphasis on its influence in black working-class organizing in the San...
by PhillipsChieko | Apr 12, 2012 | African American History, People
Civic leader, environmentalist, activist, and journalist Benjamin Jealous is currently the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, one of the largest and oldest environmental defense organizations in the United States. He was named to that post on November 14, 2022...
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by LewisDavid | Apr 11, 2012 | African American History, People
Educator, newspaper publisher and politician John Quincy Adams is best known as the editor of the Western Appeal/The Appeal of St. Paul, Minnesota. He held the position from 1886 to 1922. John Quincy Adams was born free in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 4, 1848, to the...
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