In Georgia, defense attorneys are making the case that the three White men involved in killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, were justified by a Civil War-era law instituted to catch runaway slaves.
November 4: Theo Wright becomes the first Black person to earn Theology Degree, 1836
Veterans Day was created as “Armistice Day” on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. It became a national holiday by an act of Congress in 1938. As we honor the memory of those who served in this great conflict, separately and apart from other occasions honoring our War service members, let us not forget the special struggles of Black Veterans, especially during the years following World War I.
November 3: Congressman Harold Ford was elected into House of Representatives , 1974
Michelle Obama’s next promotion for her memoir “Becoming” will center on college students.
November 2: Haile Selassie Becomes Emperor of Ethiopia, 1930
The National Guard had occupied Delaware’s largest city for nine months in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the trauma from both of these events left the Black community reeling, marking a moment in Wilmington’s history that city residents still recall today.
November 1: American Journalist, John E. Bruce Speaks on the “Return to the Ancestral Homeland,”1877
October 31: Great American Singer, Ethel Waters was born, 1900
October 30: Muhammad Ali VS. George Foreman
October 29: U.S. Supreme Court Act Against School Segregation, 1969
October 27: Former UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, elected mayor of Atlanta, 1981
October 26: Inventor T. Marshall Patented the Fire Extinguisher, 1872
Mike Mason was one of the nation’s highest-ranking FBI officials. Now he drives students to school in a yellow school bus each morning and afternoon.
Women over 50 who breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests compared to women who never breastfed a new study led by researchers at UCLA Health revealed.