Black Fact of the Day: Monday August 31, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago gained its independence, 1962
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Black Fact of the Day: Sunday August 30, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
Wilberforce University, was established by the AME Church and became the first HBCU founded by African Americans, 1856
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Black Fact of the Day: Saturday August 29, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
Mal Goode became the first African American news correspondent on t.v., 1962
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Black Fact of the Day: Thursday August 27, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan Africanist, author, historian, & Harvard grad, passed away in Ghana, where he was a citizen, 1963
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Black Fact of the Day: Wednesday August 19, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
Comedian, actor, and civil rights activist Richard “Dick” Gregory, passed away in Washington D.C., 2017
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Dr. Ernest DuPorte, a leading entomologist (an insect scientist), passed away, 1981.
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Three-time Olympian and two-time gold medal winning hockey player Jarome Iginla announced his retirement, 2018.
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Carl Lewis won his ninth and final Olympic gold medal, 1996.
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The Buffalo Soldiers were officially formed in 1866. In 1992 this day was dedicated as Buffalo Soldier Day.
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What’s Love Got to Do with It, starring Angela Bassett, made its U.S. debut on June 25, 1993.
Surveyor, mathematician, and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker began laying out the design of Washington, D.C., 1791.
On this day in 1863, Dr. Mary Church Terrell, one of the first African American women to receive a degree, was born in Memphis, TN.