by Mwansa Luchembe | Aug 3, 2020 | African American History, People
Arthur Paul Davis was an African American university teacher, literary scholar, author, and editor, born November 21, 1904, to Andrew Davis and Francis (Nash) Davis in Hampton, Virginia. He was one of nine children. He married Clarice E. Winn on October 6, 1928 (d....
by HelfgottEstherAltshul | Oct 18, 2017 | African American History, People
William A. “Bill” Hilliard was the first Black editor of the Portland Oregonian, the largest daily newspaper in Oregon, and the first Black president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Hilliard, one of four children, was born May 28, 1927, in Chicago,...
by BrianHoffman | Jun 19, 2014 | African American History, People
Dean P. Baquet is primarily known as a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism and the first African American executive editor of the New York Times. Baquet was born on September 21, 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a middle class family which included four other...
by McInellyCade | Mar 26, 2013 | African American History, People
Barbara Hillary was the first African American woman on record to reach both the North and South Poles. Born in New York City, New York, on June 12, 1931, to Viola Jones Hillary and raised in Harlem, Hillary attended the New School University in New York, N.Y., where...
by SingerHazel | Apr 1, 2012 | African American History, People
Floyd Calvin was a journalist who also launched a newswire service and hosted the first Black radio show during the Harlem Renaissance. Calvin was born in 1902 to a school teacher and a farmer in Washington, Arkansas. He graduated from Shover State Teacher Training...
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