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Black Fact of the Day: August 29, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 29, 2019
On this day, August 29, 1962, Mal Goode became the first African American news correspondent on television.
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Black Fact of the Day: August 15, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 15, 2019
On this day, August 15, 1860, Henrietta Davis, called by Marcus Garvey, “the greatest woman of the African race,” was born.
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Black Fact of the Day: August 12, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 12, 2019
On this day, August 12, 2002, Frederick D. Gregory was sworn in as the NASA Deputy Administrator (NASA’s highest position).
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Black Fact of the Day: August 8, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 8, 2019
On this day, August 8, 2011, Dr. Charles Herbert “Tiger” Flowers, the first African American flight instructor at Tuskegee Air Force Base, passed away.
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Black Fact of the Day: August 7, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 7, 2019
On this day, August 7, 1966, Samuel Battle, the first African American NYPD lieutenant, passed away at the age of 83.
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Black Fact of the Day: August 4, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 4, 2019
On this day, August 4, 2009, W. 135th St. and Lenox Ave. became Samuel J. Battle Plaza in honor of the first Black parole commissioner.
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Black Fact of the Day: August 3, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
August 3, 2019
On this day, August 3, 1967, Clifford Alexander Jr. began his first day in office as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 30, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 30, 2019
On this day, July 30, 1970, journalist Louis Lomax died under mysterious circumstances while investigating Malcolm X’s death.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 29, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 29, 2019
On this day, July 29, 1794, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, the oldest African American owned church in the U.S., was dedicated.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 23, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 23, 2019
On this day, July 23, 1891, Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright, the first African American NYPD police surgeon, was born in LaGrange, Georgia.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 22, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 22, 2019
On this day, July 22, 1950, William Hastie received his commission to serve as Governor of the Virgin Islands as a federal judge.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 14, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 14, 2019
On this day, July 14, 1955, the George Washington Carver National Monument, the first monument for an African American, was dedicated.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 5, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 5, 2019
On this day, July 5, 1975, Tennis star Arthur Ashe became the first African American to win a Wimbledon Men’s Singles Title.
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Black Fact of the Day: July 2, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
July 2, 2019
On this day, July 2, 1908, the first African American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Black Fact of the Day: June 29, 2019 – Brought to you by Black365
June 29, 2019
On this day June 29, 1994, Otis M. Smith, the first African American justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, passed away.
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