Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 26, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 26, 2019
Cicely Tyson and legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis were married, 1981.
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Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 22, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 22, 2019
Frederick D. Gregory became the first African American to command a spaceflight, 1989.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 21, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 21, 2019
Samuel DuBois Cook, the first African American professor to hold a regular faculty appointment at any PWI in the South was born, 1928.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 20, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 20, 2019
Inventor Garrett Morgan received a patent for the invention of the traffic light signal, 1923.
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.
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.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 15, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
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.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 13, 2019- Brought to you by Black365
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.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 10 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 10, 2019
Nat Turner confesses to being the leader of a revolution conducted by enslaved Africans, 1831.
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.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 8 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
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.
Black Fact of the Day: Nov. 7 , 2019- Brought to you by Black365
November 7, 2019
Walter Washington entered office as the first and only Mayor Commissioner of the District of Columbia, 1967.
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.