by MikellRobert | Jan 4, 2021 | African American History, People
Ted Rasberry was a player and team owner in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Rasberry was born on October 8, 1913, in West Point, Mississippi, and in his youth, played basketball, baseball and football. He attended Mississippi Industrial College and graduated with a degree...
by MikellRobert | Oct 19, 2020 | African American History, People
Warrick De’Mon Dunn is a former National Football League (NFL) running back who played for twelve seasons. Dunn was born on January 5, 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana to single mother Betty Smothers. He attended Catholic High in Baton Rouge and played on the football...
by Devyn Baer | Sep 22, 2020 | African American History, People
Pellom McDaniels, the first born of Pellom and Mary McDaniels, was born on February 21, 1968. He was an all-American professional football player who played defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). Although he was a well-known player for the Kansas...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Aug 30, 2020 | African American History, People
Ernest Houston Johnson was the first African American to graduate from Stanford University, a young man whose promise of an extraordinary professional career was cut short. His signal achievement at Stanford and the details of his abbreviated life had essentially been...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Aug 28, 2020 | African American History, People
Rutgers University President Jonathan S. Holloway was born July 26, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of an Air Force lieutenant colonel Dr. Wendell Mondoza Holloway and preschool and elementary school teacher Kay Trent Holloway. He grew up mainly in Montgomery,...
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