by MahoneyEleanor | Oct 28, 2017 | African American History, People
On July 17, 1888, Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin became the second African American woman to receive a patent from the United States government for her invention of a gong and signal chair (U.S. Patent number 386,289). At the time of her application, Benjamin was living...
by HelfgottEstherAltshul | Oct 21, 2017 | African American History, People
Dorothy Evans Holmes is a psychoanalytic thinker who broke through racial, gender, and other institutional boundaries of such organizations as the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). She is in the vanguard of discourse on gender and race, including...
by MomoduSamuel | Oct 1, 2017 | African American History, Events
The Charleston Church Massacre took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, killed nine people including the senior pastor and South Carolina State Senator...
by FikesRobert | Sep 17, 2017 | African American History, People
Four-star general and precision flier Lloyd W. Newton was born December 24, 1942, in Ridgeland, South Carolina, the fourth of seven children of John H. Newton, a farmer, and Annie Newton. After graduating from Jasper High School in Ridgeland, he majored in mechanical...
by MomoduSamuel | Sep 17, 2017 | African American History, People
The shooting death of Walter Lamar Scott, an unarmed Black man, by Michael Thomas Slager, a white police officer, during a daytime traffic stop, helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement. Many people viewed the shooting as racially motivated, and the incident...
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