by ManosKarousos | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
Shalanda Delores Young is a U.S. policy advisor who is the first Black woman to serve as Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She previously served as Deputy Director from March 24, 2021, to March 17, 2022 and before that as chief of...
by Otis Alexander | Mar 27, 2022 | Global African History, People
Charles Wesley Turnbull, sixth governor of the United States Virgin Islands, was born February 5, 1935, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands of the United States, to John Wesley Turnbull and Ruth Ann Eliza Skelton Turnbull who were both immigrants from...
by GuzmanWill | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
Rasheed Linway Storey, factory worker and Communist organizer, was born February 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ella Mae Kimball Storey of Mobile, Alabama and James Enes Storey of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Reared in West Philadelphia’s Mill Creek,...
by Otis Alexander | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
The major league baseball player Álex (A-Rod) Rodríguez was born Álexander Emmanuel Rodríguez on July 27, 1975, in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, to Victor Rodríguez, a former pro catcher in the Dominican Republic and Lourdes Rodríguez. At four, the...
by Otis Alexander | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yamiche Léone Alcindor Cline has quickly become one of the most prominent African American journalists in the nation. Of Haïtien heritage, Alcindor was born in Miami, Florida, on November 1, 1986. Her father and mother came from...
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