by JohnsonWillard | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Melissa Harris-Perry is an American author, professor, television host, and political commentator who focuses on African American political issues. Harris-Perry has written for The Nation, in addition to penning her two award-winning books, Sister Citizen: Shame,...
by MikellRobert | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Anna Maria Weems is best known as an enslaved person who gained her freedom with a daring escape from slavery. Weems was born into slavery about 1840 in Maryland to John and Arabella Talbot Weems. Her father was a free man of color, but her mother was enslaved, and...
by CotkinGeorge | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History
Coming from the biological term symbiosis, meaning the interdependence of different species, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a radical leftist revolutionary organization that sought to unify all left-wing struggles under one banner. The Berkeley, California-formed...
by JohnsonWillard | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers was an American politician and activist, and in 1967, she became the first Black to be elected to the Senate of the state of Kentucky. Powers, a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also worked with Rev. Jesse Jackson and...
by JohnsonWillard | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Georgia Ann Hill Robinson became the first Black female police officer to work for the Los Angeles (California) Police Department (LAPD)—and possibly the first in the country—in 1916. Months before 15 percent of the police force of the United States would begin...
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