by WynneBen | Jul 29, 2014 | Global African History, Groups & Organizations
Niger Armed Forces fighting Boko Haram in March 2015 “Image Ownership: Public Domain” Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram was founded by Mohammed Yusuf in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri in 2002.The official Arabic name of the group is...
by NewmarkJill | Jul 29, 2014 | African American History, People
Nicodemus Street Scene, ca. 1885 “Image Ownership: Public Domain” John W. Niles was one of the founders of Nicodemus, Kansas, the first black community on the High Plains. Niles was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1842 to a European father and a black...
by RobisonKenneth | Jul 10, 2014 | African American History, People
Don Davis was a musician, producer, and banking pioneer based primarily in Detroit, Michigan. He began his music career as a session guitarist at Motown, then switched to producing records and managing a recording studio. By the early 1980s, he became the owner of...
by NewmarkJill | Jul 10, 2014 | African American History, People
Abram Thompson Hall, Jr., a northern journalist, forced the organization of Graham County after arriving in Nicodemus, Kansas, the first all-black community on the high plains. The county’s rapidly increasing white population objected, but Kansas Governor John Pierce...
by BenderRita | Jul 10, 2014 | African American History, People
Image Courtesy of Ruby Bishop Ruby Carol Bishop is a legendary jazz performer in the Pacific Northwest. Graced with ebullient humor, loving her adoring audiences, and always dressed in sparkly sequins, Bishop at 94 continues to play piano in Seattle nightclubs while...
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