Marjorie Stewart Joyner (October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman. She was born in 1896, in Monterey, Virginia. She was the granddaughter of a slave owner and a slave. In 1912, she moved to Chicago and began studying cosm ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 11:25AM
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By Reverend Al Sharpton
Posted: 03/24/2014 4:10 pm EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 4:59 pm EDT
It's been 60 years since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision, which unanimously held that racial segregation of children in public schools ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 10:54AM
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's pilot was devastated over his wife's decision to move out and could have taken the plane on a "last joyride," according to a long-term friend.
The unnamed ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 10:48AM
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Shirley Ajayi-Carroll was the first African American woman given a part on a television show as a psychic.
Shirley Ajayi-Carroll was born in 1959 to a Caucasian father (an Air Force veteran) and an African American mother. Her early life was very ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 11:03AM
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LOS ANGELES--A 74-year-old woman was released from prison late Monday night after her conviction in a 1981 double murder was set aside and her sentence was reduced.
Family and friends greeted Mary Virginia Jones with hugs and flowers as she walked ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 4:30PM
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Oh no, Judge Joe! Former TV court Judge Joe Brown was arrested and jailed in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, March 24 on a contempt of court charge.
Brown, 66, was sentenced by Juvenile Court Magistrate Harold "Hal" Horne to five days in jail after ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 4:05PM
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Born in Virginia in 1912, Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African-American women. She was a leader in addressing the rights of both women and Afri ...
Posted Wednesday, March 12th 2014 at 8:15PM
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Vinnette Justine Carroll (March 11, 1922 — November 5, 2002) was an American playwright and actress, and the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway, with the 1972 musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.
Born Vinnette Justine Carroll i ...
Posted Tuesday, March 11th 2014 at 9:44PM
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Louise Ellen Beavers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to school teacher Ernestine Monroe Beavers and William M. Beavers, who was originally from Georgia. Due to her mother's illness, Louise and her parents moved to Pasadena, California.
Beavers first ...
Posted Monday, March 10th 2014 at 3:57PM
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Margaret Murray Washington, born March 9, 1865, was one of ten children born to sharecroppers. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was African American. As a child Murray spent much of her time reading and quickly excelled in school. By th ...
Posted Monday, March 10th 2014 at 3:53PM
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Carrie Best was born Carrie Prevoe in New Glasgow, Canada on March 4, 1903. to James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe. A creative child, Carrie wrote poetry at age four and many letters to Canadian newspaper editors expressing her views while in her teen yea ...
Posted Wednesday, March 5th 2014 at 5:52PM
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, pioneering model, dies at 93
BY LARRY GIERER
March 4, 2014
One of the first African-American models in the country and founder of the first black model agency, Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell died Friday at the age of 93 in New York City.
She was more well known in Columbus ...
Posted Tuesday, March 4th 2014 at 6:51PM
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SOJOURNER TRUTH'S INFAMOUS "AIN'T I A WOMAN" SPPECH
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree, the youngest of 12 children, in Ulster County, NY, in 1797. When she was nine, Isabella was sold from her family to an English speaking-family calle ...
Posted Saturday, March 1st 2014 at 5:19PM
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Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister and civil rights leader who was active in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans from the 1920s. At times he has been rated as one of the three greatest African ...
Posted Friday, February 28th 2014 at 12:23PM
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the Universi ...
Posted Thursday, February 27th 2014 at 8:04PM
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Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam ("Black Muslims") during their period of greatest growth in the mid-twentieth century. He was a major promoter of independent, black-operated businesses, institutions, and religion.
Elijah Muh ...
Posted Tuesday, February 25th 2014 at 11:07AM
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More than a half-century ago, Alexander P. Tureaud Jr. became the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University until students, teachers, the administration and the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals forced him out before he cou ...
Posted Monday, February 24th 2014 at 5:24PM
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Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught African-American painter. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Gos ...
Posted Saturday, February 22nd 2014 at 6:19PM
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Edith Spurlock Sampson (October 13, 1898 – October 8, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge, and the first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations.
Sampson was one of eight children born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. to Louis Sp ...
Posted Wednesday, February 19th 2014 at 2:06PM
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