Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 18 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 18, 2019
The movie Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, premiered on this date in 1992.
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Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 17, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 17, 2019
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University, 1911.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 16, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 16, 2019
Newspaper publisher Pam Johnson became the first African American woman to head a general circulation newspaper, 1981.
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November 15, 2019
Coretta Scott King called for a commission to be established to investigate who the true assassin was of Dr. King, 1999.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 14, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 14, 2019
The Washington Society of Colored Dentists was formed in Washington D.C., 1900.
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November 13, 2019
Becoming, the memoir of former United States First Lady Michelle Obama was published, 2018.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 12, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 12, 2019
Divine Nine sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, was founded on the campus of Butler University, 1922.
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November 11, 2019
Showing absolutely no emotion, Nat Turner was put to death by hanging after leading a successful revolution in VA, 1831.
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November 10, 2019
Nat Turner confesses to being the leader of a revolution conducted by enslaved Africans, 1831.
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November 9, 2019
Mathematician, inventor, architect and designer of Washington, D.C., Benjamin Banneker, born in MD, 1731.
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November 8, 2019
Svante Myrick was elected as Ithaca NY’s youngest mayor and its first African American mayor. He was 24 years old, 2011.
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November 7, 2019
Walter Washington entered office as the first and only Mayor Commissioner of the District of Columbia, 1967.
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November 6, 2019
The first African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the U.S., Absalom Jones, was born in Delaware, 1746.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 5 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 5, 2019
Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, 1968.
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November 4, 2019
Frederick D. Gregory became the first African American to command a spaceflight, 1989.