by | Mar 9, 2022 | Businesses and Institutions, Global African History
Cuttington University in Liberia is the oldest private, coeducational, four-year degree granting institution and the oldest college or university in sub-Saharan Africa. Cuttington’s origins date back to 1887. In that year the Cape Palmas Missionary District of Liberia...
by MikellRobert | Jul 22, 2020 | African American History, People
Patrick Ellis Connery was a legendary radio personality for WHUR-FM’s Sunday Gospel Spirit Show in the Washington, D.C. area for more than four decades. Ellis died on July 16, 2020 in a hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, at the age of 77, from complications due to...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 25, 2018 | African American History, People
Michael Bruce Curry is the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. Curry was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 13, 1953 to the Rev. Kenneth S. L. Curry, a pastor and social activist, and Dorothy Strayhorn Curry. At age three, he moved with his...
by ShellCheryl | Sep 30, 2018 | African American History, People
Artemisia Bowden, an educator and civic leader, one of few black women college presidents during the first half of the 20th century, was born on January 1, 1879 in Albany, Georgia, to former slaves Milas Bowden and Mary (Molette) Bowden. The oldest of four children,...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 6, 2015 | Global African History, People
“Image Ownership: York Minster” In 2005, John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was installed as the Anglican Church’s Archbishop of York. Sentamu was born on June 10, 1949, the sixth of 13 children of Rev. John and Ruth Walakira in a village outside Kampala, Uganda....
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