October 27: Former UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, elected mayor of Atlanta, 1981
October 27, 2021
October 27: Former UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, elected mayor of Atlanta, 1981
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today in black history
October 26: Inventor T. Marshall Patented the Fire Extinguisher, 1872
October 26, 2021
October 26: Inventor T. Marshall Patented the Fire Extinguisher, 1872
Retired FBI Official Takes Job as Bus Driver during Shortage
October 25, 2021
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.
UCLA Study Shows Women Who Breastfeed Perform Better on Cognitive Tests
October 25, 2021
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.
October 25: Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was Born in London, 1975
October 25, 2021
October 25: Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was Born in London, 1975
October 23: NNAMDI AZIKIWE SPEAKS BEFORE THE BRITISH PEACE CONFERENCE IN LONDON
October 23, 2021
October 23: NNAMDI AZIKIWE SPEAKS BEFORE THE BRITISH PEACE CONFERENCE IN LONDON
WATCH: LATEST NEWS SURROUNDING THE NATIONAL NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
October 22, 2021
WATCH: LATEST NEWS SURROUNDING THE NATIONAL NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
WATCH: Black People Made That! Intellectual Property and US Patents
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Black People Made That! Intellectual Property and US Patents
WATCH: Muhammad Ali Highlights – The Greatest
October 22, 2021
Muhammad Ali Highlights – The Greatest
WATCH: Kehinde Wiley On President Obama’s Official Portrait: ‘This Is The Real Thing’
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Kehinde Wiley On President Obama’s Official Portrait: ‘This Is The Real Thing’
WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
Civil Rights activist, Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
October 15, 2021
Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV.
Objection your honor: Bar Exam Comes Under Further Scrutiny
October 14, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam’s role in keeping people of color out of the profession.
Town Honors First Black Tow Truck Business Owner in Delaware
October 11, 2021
A flatbed tow truck from Harris Towing Group sat silently in front of Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover Thursday night, a solemn reminder that Delaware businessman and trailblazer Luke J. Harris Jr. had died at age 76 on Sept. 18.