A pioneer in the world of African American music education, Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia on February 18, 1868 to Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and Maria Ann (Alexander) Gibbs. In 1869 her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshal ...
Posted Saturday, February 23rd 2013 at 10:55AM
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Slavery Finally Abolished in Mississippi—Just in Time for Black History Month
It only took 148 years, but black people in Mississippi are officially free. Like officially officially. They probably thought they were, since this is 2013 and all, an ...
Posted Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 10:29AM
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Woman nearly taken in by check scam, warns others to be wary
AMITE, La.-- It came via overnight priority from FedEx -- a check purportedly worth a couple of thousand dollars, about the same amount Jessica Perkins expected in her income tax refund. ...
Posted Wednesday, February 20th 2013 at 4:29PM
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In 1943, Euphemia Lofton Haynes earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., thus becoming the first African American Woman Ph. D. in Mathematics.
Born Martha Euphemia Lofton, Euphremia (she rarely used Martha) w ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 7:12PM
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From GlobalResearch.com
February 19, 2013
Disability campaigners are making a last-ditch appeal for clemency for Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday evening despite a US supreme court ba ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 6:06PM
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Posted on February 13, 2013
By Anthony Kort
UPDATE 2/13/13 1:06pm PST: Authorities have claimed to have found a wallet within the burned down cabin that contained a California Driver’s License with Christopher Dorner’s name on it. This is the th ...
Posted Saturday, February 16th 2013 at 4:35PM
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960.
Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1911, and second bachel ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 10:42AM
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On February 13, 1970, Joseph Searles became the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange. The Kansas State University graduate was working as an aide for New York City Mayor John Lindsey when he was offered the job as a floor trad ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 12:36PM
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