by BrackettJohnK | Oct 29, 2013 | African American History, People
Alvin J. Boutte Sr., co-founder and past chairman and CEO of Independence Bank (at one time America’s largest Black-owned bank), was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on October 10, 1929. He was the youngest of 10 children. His mother, Adorea Darensbourg...
by TravisTrysh | Oct 29, 2013 | African American History, Perspectives
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national...
by HallGwendolynMidlo | Oct 29, 2013 | African American History, People
Solomon Northup was a free Black man who was illegally held in bondage for twelve years before he regained his freedom. Northup was born to free parents in Minerva, New York, in 1808. Little is known of his mother other than she was born a free mulatto. His father,...
by BrackettJohnK | Oct 28, 2013 | African American History, People
Walter Edward Williams, economist, educator, political pundit, radio personality, and syndicated columnist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 31, 1936. Williams and his sister were raised by a single mother in the Richard Allen Housing Project in North...
by WynneBen | Oct 28, 2013 | African American History, People
Sir Mix-A-Lot, a pioneering Pacific Northwest rapper and producer, was born Anthony Ray in Seattle, Washington, on August 12, 1963. He grew up in Seattle’s Central District and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1981. Early on, Mix-A-Lot had an ear and a...
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