by David H. Jackson Jr. | Aug 11, 2023 | African American History, People
Thomas Clarence Jervay, Sr., former National Newspaper Publishers Association Chair and activist journalist, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina (NC), on November 30, 1914. He was one of eight children of Robert Smith Jervay from Charleston, South Carolina, and...
by MikellRobert | Jan 25, 2022 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Black Scholar is a quarterly journal founded in 1969 by Nathan Hare, Robert Chrisman, and Allan Ross. It is the third-oldest journal of Black history and culture in the United States after The Crisis, the publication of the NAACP founded in 1910, and the Journal...
by FikesRobert | Jun 9, 2017 | African American History, People
Ophelia DeVore Mitchell was an American businesswoman, publisher, and one of the first African American models in the United States. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in the nation. DeVore was born on August...
by FikesRobert | Nov 1, 2016 | African American History, People
Charles A. Davis was a journalist, founder of one of Chicago’s first African-American-owned public relations agencies, commercial real estate developer, and noted civic and social leader. Davis was born on September 29, 1922, in Mobile, Alabama, the fourth of five...
by MouserJoseph | Aug 10, 2015 | African American History, People
Camille J. Billops, artist, filmmaker, archivist, and professor, was born on August 12, 1933, in Los Angeles. Her parents were Alma Gilmore and Lucius Billops, and she has one sister, Billie. She married James V. Hatch, a professor of theater at the University of...
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