by StanleyFreeman | Feb 6, 2023 | African American History, People
Troy Anthony Carter is a United States Congressman representing Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District since May of 2021. He is the Second Vice-Chair in the Congressional Black Caucus, and prominently known as the first African American elected to serve District 102...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 27, 2022 | African American History, People
Political Scientist George James Fleming was born in Bassein Triangle, Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) on February 15, 1904 to parents Alexander Fleming and Ernestine Jackson Fleming. His primary education began at the Moravian...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jan 13, 2022 | African American History, People
New Jack-Swing R&B singer Montell Du’Sean Barnett Jordan was born on December 3, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, and reared in the South Central section of the city. His parents were Elijah Jordan and Deloris Jordan. Montell had two sisters, Jennifer Jordan and...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Dec 7, 2021 | African American History, People
Historian Arnold H. Taylor was born in Regina, Northern Neck, Virginia, on November 9, 1929, to Isaiah Taylor and Tina Rebecca Clayton Taylor. His early education began in 1934 at Mount Olive Elementary School. However, after the school closed in 1936, he attended the...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | May 4, 2021 | African American History, People
James E. Stamps, one of five pivotal founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH), was born on March 6, 1890, in Marlin, Texas, to Perry A. Stamps and Mabel Myers, both born in slavery. He had two brothers and one sister, Seth, Perry,...
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