This Week in Black History (June 23)
June 22, 2016
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Breaking News
- LACMA Showcases ‘Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics’ Exhibit
- Sheenway School and Culture Center — Educating Youth to Lead the Future Over 50 Years
- Record-Breaking Hate Crimes Against Black Angelenos on the Rise
- Los Angeles Rams and LAPD Spread Holiday Cheer with Annual Sleigh Ride
- Heather Hutt Sworn-in as Councilwoman for L.A.’s 10th District
- Visit Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for Holiday Photos with Santa
- Homeless and Their Advocates Speak Out in New Film, ‘WE, the Vulnerable of LA’
- The Congressman Wore Sneakers: An Evening With Hakeem Jeffries
- Brotherhood Crusade Honors SEIU President April Verrett at 2024 Pioneer of African American Achievement Award Dinner
- Chargers Thwart Divisional Foe on Thursday Night
- No. 18 UCLA Men’s Basketball Defeats Prairie View A&M 111-75
- Athletes in $2.8 billion college lawsuit tell judge they want to create a players’ association
- Cal, UNLV Inspire La Tijera Students at Day of Play
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December 2, 2015
December 3 1982- Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns won the WBC Junior Middleweight title. He was the first Black boxer to win titles in five different weight classes. December 4 1969- Ebony Magazine’s Moneta Sleet Jr. won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for his picture “Deep Sorrow”. Sleet captured the image of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King. December 5 1955- Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery, Alabama, at a mass meeting in the Holt Street Baptist Church. It all started when Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a
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This Week in Black History (August 27)
August 26, 2015
August 27 1963- W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and founder of NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana. August 28 1955- 14 year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and lynched in Money, Mississippi, for allegedly whistling at a white female at a local grocery shop. August 29 1962- Malvin R. Goode becomes the first African American television news commentator when he began working at ABC. August 30 1983- Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African American US astronaut enters. August 31 1935- In Beaumont, Texas, American professional baseball player and manager Frank Robinson was born. He was the first
This Week in Black History (August 20)
August 19, 2015
August 20 1942- Composer, songwriter, musician and singer Isaac Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee. August 21 1943- Harriet M. West became the first Black woman major in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). August 22 1989- Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton was gunned down by a member of the Black Guerrilla Family drug ring in Oakland, California. August 23 1954- Computer scientist, geologist and engineer Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria. August 24 1950- Chicago attorney Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. August 25 1925- The Brotherhood
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August 12, 2015
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This Week in Black History (July 2)
July 2, 2015
(July 2) 2001- Robert Tools became the first recipient in the world to receive an AbioCor, a self contained artificial heart, at Saint Thomas hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.