Black Fact of the Day: Saturday, December 12, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
December 12, 2020
Benjamin Banneker, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor completed the first clock made entirely in America, 1754.
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Benjamin Banneker
Black Fact of the Day: Feb. 7, 2020- Brought to you by Black365
February 7, 2020
Surveyor, mathematician, and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker began laying out the design of Washington, D.C., 1791.
Black Fact of the Day: Dec. 12, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
December 12, 2019
Benjamin Banneker, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor completed the first clock made entirely in America, 1754.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 9 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 9, 2019
Mathematician, inventor, architect and designer of Washington, D.C., Benjamin Banneker, born in MD, 1731.
America is My Home
September 20, 2019
This year, as that date approached, I was listening to one of my all-time favorites, Luther Vandross’s “A House Is Not A Home,” when the question popped into my head: Do I consider America to be my home, or just my house?
This Week In Black History (October 5 – October 11)
October 15, 2017
Born in Los Angeles, Burke discovered a lot of feats, in 1966, she became the first African American woman elected to the California assembly.