by MikellRobert | Mar 12, 2022 | African American History, People
Charles Lewis Haley is a former football player for the National Football League and holds the distinction of being the first five-time Super Bowl Champion. Haley was born on January 6, 1964, in Gladys, Virginia. His mother’s name was Virginia, and his father’s...
by StanleyFreeman | Dec 31, 2021 | African American History, People
On August 5, 2016 Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old African American was shot 76 times while at his girlfriend’s residence, Parkside Camp Creek Luxury Apartments, in Atlanta, Georgia. Robinson was killed when members of several law enforcement agencies opened fired...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Sep 3, 2021 | African American History, People
Fulfilling a dream he held onto for nearly a decade, on September 23, 2020, three-star Gen. Richard M. Clark, at a ceremony in Falcon Stadium, took command as top administrator of the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Born in Frankfurt, Germany,...
by FikesRobert | Jan 4, 2021 | African American History, People
Jamaal Bowman is a politician and educator who became the Democratic Representative for New York’s 16th Congressional District in 2021. Bowman was born on April 1, 1976 in Manhattan, New York City to unnamed parents. He lived with his grandmother in the East River...
by Arnissa Hopkins | Jan 4, 2021 | African American History, People
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. is an economist, the youngest African American to receive tenure at Harvard University, and one of the youngest professors in the school’s history. Roland Gerhard Fryer, Jr. was born in Daytona Beach, Florida on June 4, 1977 to Roland Gerard...
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