by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
Milton Murray Holland was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his action in the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm. Murray was born on August 1, 1844 in Austin, Texas, the son of Bird Holland, a white slave...
by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
John Ridley IV is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist known best for the 2013 film, 12 Years a Slave, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Ridley was born in October 1965, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to an ophthalmologist...
by MomoduSamuel | Nov 29, 2016 | African American History, People
Dwayne Tyrone Wade Jr. is an American basketball player whose National Basketball Association (NBA) career so far has been with Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls. During his NBA career, Wade won three championships with the Miami Heat in 2006, 2012, and 2013. Along with...
by MomoduSamuel | Nov 22, 2016 | African American History, Concepts
The Second Emancipation Proclamation was an envisioned executive order proposed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the civil rights movement which they urged President John F. Kennedy to issue. As the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order...
by MuhammadAhmad | Nov 21, 2016 | African American History, People
Anthony (Tony) Martin, lawyer, author, professor, and scholar was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1942. He migrated to England where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the University of Hull and qualified as a barrister (attorney) at the Honorable...
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