by MaillardMary | Aug 24, 2015 | African American History, People
Louisa “Lulu” Matilda Jacobs, teacher, equal rights activist, and entrepreneur, was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, on October 19, 1833. She was the daughter of congressman and newspaper editor Samuel Tredwell Sawyer and his mixed-race enslaved mistress...
by BelmondVanessa | Aug 24, 2015 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Preston Mack/Darden” Corporate CEO Clarence Otis was born April 11, 1956, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father, Clarence Otis Sr., worked as a janitor while his mother, Calanthus Hall Otis, stayed home to raise their three children. The...
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by ZybachBob | Aug 24, 2015 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
On August 6, 1945, Private First Class Malvin L. Brown was killed after falling 140 feet during a “let-down” from a tree while fighting a forest fire in the Umpqua National Forest in southern Oregon. Brown was the first smokejumper to die while fighting a wildfire...
by Herbert G Ruffin II | Aug 23, 2015 | African American History, Perspectives
In the article below, Syracuse University historian Herbert Ruffin explores the rapid rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2013 as the most recent development in the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice in the United States. In the summer of 2013,...
by BarkleyCharlesKelly | Aug 21, 2015 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: World Economic Forum” Artist, urban planner, and activist Theaster Gates, born in Chicago, Illinois on August 28, 1973, has gained critical acclaim for his work which engages the Chicago community and urban environment. The youngest of...
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