Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 23, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 23, 2020
Ed “Too Tall” Jones, the first HBCU player selected #1 in the NFL Draft was born in Jackson, Tennessee, 1951.
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History
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 22, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 22, 2020
One of the best basketball players to ever live, Julius “Dr. J” Erving was born in Roosevelt, NY, 1950.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 21, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 21, 2020
Singer and civil rights activist Eunice Kathleen Waymon better known as Nina Simone was born in Tryon, NC, 1933.
Aircraft Carrier Named After Doris Miller
February 20, 2020
Miller fought during the attack on Pearl Harbor after the Japanese surprise attack on the islands on December 7, 1941.
The Black Wall Street Massacre Revisited
February 20, 2020
It was an anomaly in times of Jim Crow, KKK, and even Northern Immigrant European Mafia White racism.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 20, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 20, 2020
John Singleton became the first African American, and youngest person ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, 1992.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 19, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 19, 2020
Miles Davis received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1998.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 18, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 18, 2020
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, OH 1931.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 17, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 17, 2020
One of the greatest basketball players to ever live Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, 1963.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 16, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 16, 2020
Wilt Chamberlain became the first NBA player to score 30,000 points, 1972.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 15, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 15, 2020
Clifford Alexander, Jr., served his first day in office after being sworn in as the 13th Secretary of the Army, 1977.
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 14, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 14, 2020
Morehouse College was founded as Augusta Theological Institute, 1867.
BLACK HISTORY: Emmett Till Lives
February 13, 2020
Emmett Till Lives Classism, racism, war, and corporate greed are malicious outliers, which in their ways, plague the current 2020 United States and global civilization abroad. Recollect back to 1955, Post World War Two, United States and these same outliers were a virus dividing and corrupting the United States and most of the world. In that year 1955, a 14-year-old Black male teenager from Chicago was sent by his mother to visit his family in Money, Mississippi. This innocent teenager was named Emmett Louis Till. Actually, Emmett was having a great time visiting his southern family, receiving all the love
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 13, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 13, 2020
Albert Dent, the 1st African American Fellow of the American College of Hospital Administrators passed away, 1984.
Black History Spotlight – Trailblazing Gospel Radio Announcers
February 12, 2020
Radio broadcasters were instrumental in spreading gospel music to the masses. In honor of Black History Month, the Sentinel features a few of the L.A. faith-based deejays and radio stations that ruled the airwaves in the middle decades of the 20th century. Rev. Clayton D. Russell – As the first Black gospel radio announcer in Los Angeles, Russell launched his broadcast on KFOX in 1938 with a 15-minute church service featuring fellow announcers Joe Adams and Forest “War” Perkins. Russell’s program was expanded to one-hour in 1941, making him the first African American to have a long-format show in the