by MackDwayne | Dec 25, 2018 | Global African History, People
Paulette Nardal was one of the founders of the Negritude intellectual movement. Nardal was born on October 12, 1896 in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, to Paul Nardal, the first black engineer in public works on the island, and Louise (Achille) Nardal. Paulette was the...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 25, 2018 | Global African History, People
Franciscus “Franc” Max Weerwind is the first black mayor of a major city in the Netherlands; moreover, he has been the mayor of three cities in that nation. The younger of the two sons of immigrant parents who arrived in the Netherlands in 1959, his father was a nurse...
by SimbaMalik | Dec 25, 2018 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Campbell College, a now-defunct AME college in Mississippi, was founded in 1890 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of one of its bishops, Jabez Pitt Campbell. The college was originally located about one mile from the center of Vicksburg,...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Dr. Keith L. Black is one of the world’s premier neurosurgeons. Black was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on September 13, 1957 to Robert Black, an elementary school principal, and Lillian Black, a schoolteacher. At an early age, his parents cultivated his interest in...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Michael Bruce Curry is the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. Curry was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 13, 1953 to the Rev. Kenneth S. L. Curry, a pastor and social activist, and Dorothy Strayhorn Curry. At age three, he moved with his...
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