by NielsenEuellA. | Jul 11, 2022 | African American History, People
Arizona Fleming was a small business owner who became part of the Civil Rights Movement in Fort Bend County, Texas. Fleming was born in Richmond, Texas on March 23, 1884, to Laura and Beauregard Fleming. Not much is known about her life. After attending segregated...
by DavidZuber | Mar 11, 2022 | African American History, People
A successful entrepreneur, Richelieu Dennis, was born February 25, 1969 in Liberia the son of Mary Dennis. Dennis grew up in Liberia during the civil wars, a time of violence and disruption. However, he was able to attend elementary and high school in Liberia and...
by Sonya Morris | Dec 6, 2021 | African American History, People
Charles King is a producer, visionary, trailblazer, angel investor, founder and Chief Executive Officer of MACRO, a Hollywood development and production studio founded in 2015. Born in Harlem, New York in 1969 to Dr. Winton King, a Bermudian and pediatrics resident at...
by Otis Alexander | Dec 5, 2021 | African American History, People
Sylvia Yvonne Cyrus, Executive Director of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), was born on December 16, 1955, in Plainfield, New Jersey, to John Marvin Cyrus, Sr. from Marion, Virginia, an orphan who achieved an eighth-grade...
by FikesRobert | Sep 5, 2021 | Global African History, People
Joanne Marie Anderson is the first woman of color to win election as mayor of a major city the United Kingdom and the first Black and first female woman mayor of Liverpool, England. Born in January 1971 in Liverpool, she acknowledges she is biracial and has repeatedly...
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