Rita Dove

Senghor, Léopold Sédar (1906-2001)

Scholar, African traditionalist poet, and Senegal’s first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on October 9, 1906 in Joal, Senegal. His father, Basie Diogoye Senghor, was a Malinké landowner. His mother, Gnilane Bakhoum, came from a Christian Fulani family. They gave Senghor a European name to

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Steve McNair

Steve McNair , in full Steve LaTreal McNair, byname Air McNair (born Feb. 14, 1973, Mount Olive, Miss., U.S.—died July 4, 2009, Nashville, Tenn.), American gridiron football player who threw 174 touchdown passes during his 13 National Football League (NFL) seasons (1995–2008), primarily while

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2009

Rayford Wilkins

Rayford Wilkins, Jr. was Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Businesses for AT&T. In this role, Wilkins was responsible for serving the company’s 12,000 largest business customers and overseeing sales, customer care, data solutions engineering, consulting and operations of the

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C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward , in full Comer Vann Woodward (born Nov. 13, 1908, Vanndale, Ark., U.S.—died Dec. 17, 1999, Hamden, Conn.), American historian and educator who became the leading interpreter of the post-Civil War history of the American

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Cathy Ross

Cathy Ross retired as Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President from FedEx Express after 30 years. In this role, Ross was responsible for the company’s worldwide financial affairs, including financial planning, reporting and analysis, accounting and controls as well as long-range

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Biography

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since

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Édouard Glissant - Birthday

Glissant , (born September 21, 1928, Le Lamentin, Martinique—died February 3, 2011, Paris, France), French-speaking West Indian poet and novelist who belonged to the literary Africanism movement.

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1928

Black History Month on BlackPast.org

Every month is Black History Month here at BlackPast.org. Nonetheless we recognize that hundreds of thousands of our visitors specifically seek out the website for information on African American history during the month of February. We have gathered much of that data that may be helpful for

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Jenkins, Bonnie Denise (ca.1960– )

Born in Queens, New York, and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Jenkins was the child of a day care worker (her mother) and a store manager (her father). She attended a private all-girls high school in New York where she excelled at academics and athletics, and graduated in 1978. After

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Dove, Rita (1952- )

American poet laureate Rita Frances Dove was born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio. Rita’s father, Ray Dove, was the first African American chemist in the tire industry. Rita Dove excelled in school and in 1970 she received the Presidential Scholar Award. Dove completed a B.A. in English in three

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1952

Carolyn L. Robertson Payton (1925–2001) - Birthday

Robertson Payton was born on May 13, 1925, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Bertha M.

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May

13

1925

Wangari Maathai - Birthday

Wangari Maathai , in full Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—died September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize.

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1

1940

Hendrik Verwoerd - Birthday

Hendrik Verwoerd , in full Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (born September 8, 1901, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died September 6, 1966, Cape Town, South Africa), South African professor, editor, and statesman who, as prime minister (1958–66), rigorously developed and applied the policy of apartheid, or

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Sep

8

1901

Judge Damon J Keith Continuing the Crusade for Justice and Empowering Communities

In a career that spans nearly fifty years, the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is continuing to build on his legacy with the release of his first ever biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon

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Shorter AME Church, Denver, Colorado (1868- )

Shorter AME Church was organized in 1868. Two women, Mary Smith and Mary Randolph founded the church. The original members met on the South Platte River in 1863 until the Church was given land located at 19th and Holiday (now Market Street) by a major Fillmore, an officer in the Union Army during

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Fresh fissures rock war veterans body

WAR veterans secretary in the Zanu PF politburo Douglas Mahiya torched a raging storm in the ruling party circles at the weekend after he “officially” launched the war veterans league without the consent of provincial chairpersons and the party’s national commissar Victor Matemadanda, NewsDay has

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Alfred W. Zollar

Alfred W. Zollar was the General Manager of IBM Tivoli Software from July 2004 until January 2011. In this role, Zollar was responsible for the executive leadership, strategy and P&L of the Tivoli brand, a global, multi-billion dollar business within IBM’s $20 Billion Software

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Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond was a civil rights activist and politician. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 14, 1940 to Julia Agnes and Horace Mann Bond. His father was a respected professor who later became the first black president of Lincoln University and later the president of Atlanta

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2015

William J. Harvey

William J. Harvey was President of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP), a global business unit of E. I. du Pont de Nemours

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Lorraine Hansberry - African-American Playwright - Death

Dates: May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965 Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin for two years, then left to work for Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, first as a writer and then associate editor.

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1965

Hall Johnson: Violinist, Composer & Musical Director in New York and Hollywood

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Linda Johnson Rice

Linda Johnson Rice is Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC (JPC) and owner of Fashion Fair Cosmetics, a global prestige cosmetics brand for women of color. Johnson formerly served as Publisher of the iconic EBONY and JET Magazines. Rice has served as Chairman since

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Doctors Livestream to Discuss Impact of COVID-19 on Black America

Dr. Webb, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, moderated the distinguished panel which featured Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia and co-founder of GoodStock

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Robinson, Max (1939-1988) - Birthday

Robinson was born on May 1, 1939 in Richmond, Virginia to Maxie and Doris Robinson.

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1939

Lynn C. Swann

Lynn C. Swann serves as USC’s eighth Athletic Director, providing leadership for the university’s 21 women’s and men’s athletic teams. A Trojan alumnus, Swann was a legendary Hall of Fame wide receiver with USC and the Pittsburgh

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'Unfortunate COVID-19 didn't wipe out blacks' – Louisiana cop fired for racist Facebook post

A white Louisiana police officer, who in a racist Facebook post, said it is “unfortunate” the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t wiped out black people in the United States has been

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social

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Caribbean destinations at odds over region’s tourism reopening

A release from the CARICOM Secretariat following the talks said the leaders recognised “the need for a common protocol for the reopening of regional airports to flights from selected third countries and the reopening of

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The General Virginia Court decides the "Emmanuel" case, which involves a black

The General Virginia Court decides the Emmanuel case, which involves a black man who, along with sixwhite servants participates in a conspiracy to escape;when captured, the whites are all sentenced to extrayears of service while Emmanuel is whipped, brandedwith an R, and required to wear shackles

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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989

[Previous] [Next] Angela Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket. She became Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, a position she held until 1984. Janie L. Mines graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. She was the first African American

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