by McBrideColin | Dec 31, 2017 | African American History, People
In 2012, Timothy Russell, an African American man, was involved in a car chase by Cleveland, Ohio, police officers. At the end of the chase, he and Malissa Williams were shot and killed by one of the officers. Their controversial deaths helped inspire the Black Lives...
by MikellRobert | Dec 31, 2017 | African American History, People
Alysa Stanton is the first ordained African American female Rabbi in the United States. Stanton was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 2, 1963, and was raised in a Pentecostal Christian home. When she was 11, the family moved into a Jewish community in Cleveland...
by BrianHoffman | Dec 31, 2017 | African American History, People
Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist who is best known for utilizing the connection machine and 65,536 microprocessors to achieve 3.1 billion calculations per second, the fastest computational record at the time. Emeagwali was born on August 23rd, 1954, in Akure,...
by MikellRobert | Dec 31, 2017 | African American History, People
In 2003, Orlando Barlow was shot in the back while attempting to surrender to Las Vegas, Nevada, Police officers. His murder helped generate what would eventually become a national debate about police use of deadly force against unarmed citizens and the eventual...
by MaioranaJuliette | Dec 31, 2017 | African American History, People
On March 15, 2012, Shereese Francis was suffocated and murdered by four New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in her family home in Rochdale, Queens, New York. Although she was diagnosed with schizophrenia while studying at Nassau Community College, she was able...
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