by GoldmanMarion | Dec 27, 2013 | African American History, People
New Orleans, Louisiana, trumpeter Lionel Charles Ferbos was born in the city’s Creole 7th Ward on July 17, 1911. His father was Louis Ferbos, a tinsmith, and his mother was Rosita Ferbos. Lionel had two siblings. As a child, he had asthma and was advised not to play...
by WynneBen | Dec 26, 2013 | African American History, People
MC, or Master of Ceremonies, is a term traditionally associated with someone who determines the forms to be observed on a public occasion, acts as a host at a formal event, or is the host for a program of entertainment. Since the 1970s, the term MC (or emcee) has come...
by WynneBen | Dec 21, 2013 | African American History, People
Ice-T, pioneering West Coast rapper, singer, and actor, was born Tracy Marrow in Newark, New Jersey, to Solomon and Alice Marrow on February 16, 1958. The Marrows were a working-class African American family who lived in the predominantly white town of Summit, New...
by TsakaniasCaroline | Dec 21, 2013 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
During the late 1980s the Northwest Black Pioneers (NWBP) was conceived by participants of the Roots Festival, an annual African American cultural gathering in Seattle. In the summer of 1987, a steering committee formed in that same city to discuss strategies to...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 21, 2013 | African American History, People
Expatriate novelist, journalist, and memoirist Andrea Lee was raised in a well-to-do African American family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The youngest of three children, her father was a Baptist minister, and her mother was an elementary school teacher. The...
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