November 24: The “Father of bioengineering in Canada,” and co-developer of the pacemaker Dr. John Hopps passed away, 1998
November 23: Inventor John Love patented the pencil sharpener, 1897
Black hair care is often overlooked by venture capitalists, a world that remains distant from Black and Brown communities. Only 2% of venture capitalists are Black men and only 1% are Black women.
November 22: (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, the iconic song written and performed by Otis Redding was first recorded, 1967
November 21: Samuel DuBois Cook, the first African American professor to hold a regular faculty appointment at any PWI in the South was born, 1928
November 20: Inventor Garrett Morgan received a patent for the invention of the traffic light signal, 1923
November 19: Baseball legend, Roy Campanella, was named the Most Valuable Player for the second time, 1953
November 18: The movie Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, premiered on this date in 1992
November 17: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University, 1911
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November 16: Newspaper publisher Pam Johnson became the first African American woman to head a general circulation newspaper, 1981
A new site on the Auburn University campus honors the school’s first black student, Harold A. Franklin.
The roots of America’s Veterans Day observance can be traced to the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when a cease-fire went into effect, ending hostilities in World War I.
For decades before and after desegregation, the old Broadmoor grocery store served as a crossroads between the Black neighborhood Soria City and the white neighborhood Broadmoor.
Brown University expanded its report on its own historical ties to the transatlantic slave trade but says it has no current plans to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved people who worked on the campus.
November 14: African American Scholar Booker T. Washington, Died, 1915