T. Thomas Fortune

Kenneth Coleman

Ken Coleman is a long term veteran of Silicon Valley. Ken is Chairman of Saama Technologies, Inc., an advanced data and analytics company delivering actionable business insights to the Fortune 2000 in life sciences and other verticals. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard Company in various

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Pandemic boosts profits for Big Tech | Afro

Internet domain registrar GoDaddy recently launched an initiative to support small businesses forced to close their physical spaces because of

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Local Black Chamber Salutes Young Leaders

Participants in the Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce’s (SBCC) Young Leadership Collaborative (YLC) will graduate in June after completing a seven-course program designed to increase the number of young people of color interested in becoming future business

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Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman (b. September 15, 1945) is a recitalist as well as a Grammy-award winning opera singer. Norman is known for her powerful voice as well as for being an opera singer. As a child Norman recalls cleaning her room and listening to the radio; she had always been fond of music and credits

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Sep

15

1945

Calvin Darden

Calvin Darden, Sr. was Senior Vice President of U.S. Operations for UPS. In this role, Darden was accountable for all U.S operations, which covers 317,000 employees and 25 billion in revenues. Prior to this role, Darden was responsible for one-half of the U.S. operations. Before that, Darden was

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Source: Savoy Network

Fox News Bashed For Tracking Stock Gains After Attacks On Black Men

Fox News on Friday posted an offensive graphic tracking stock market gains in the wake of several infamous attacks on Black

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Ryan Williams, a 32-year-old black CEO, says America has been 'hallucinating' about racism and inequality. Until now. | The Atlanta Voice

“We’ve been hallucinating as a country for a long time,” said Williams, the 32-year-old African American founder of Cadre, a startup disrupting the real estate industry with the support of elite investors including George Soros, Mark Cuban and Peter

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Mahdist Revolution (1881-1898)

The Mahdist Revolution was an Islamic revolt against the Egyptian government in the Sudan. An apocalyptic branch of Islam, Mahdism incorporated the idea of a golden age in which the Mahdi, translated as “the guided one,” would restore the glory of Islam to the

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Source: Black Past

Lewis, Henry Jay (1932-1996)

Henry Jay Lewis, musician and conductor, was born October 16, 1932 in Los Angeles to automobile dealer Henry J. Lewis, and nurse Mary Josephine Lewis. Lewis started playing the piano when he was five, and in junior high he learned to play the double bass while also studying voice, clarinet, and

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Source: Black Past

Jan

26

1996

Obscure announces distribution agreement with Proofpoint

Obscure Technologies, specialist cybersecurity brokers and leading value-added distributor of best-in-class cybersecurity solutions, has announced a dynamic distribution agreement with Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organisations’ greatest assets and

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(1895) T. Thomas Fortune, “The Nationalization of Africa”

In 1895 T. Thomas Fortune, then editor of the New York Age, and founder of the Afro-American League in 1890, was considered one of the leaders of African America. That year he gave an address at the Congress on Africa which met in Atlanta in connection with the Cotton States Exposition. His

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Grist, Reri (1932--)

Reri Grist is an internationally acclaimed lyric and coloratura soprano noted for her “silvery tone, flawless technique and stupendous acting.” Beginning her singing career as Consuelo in Leonard Bernstein’s musical “West Side Story” in 1957, she introduced the song

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Source: Black Past

Feb

29

1932

King, Horace (1807-1885)

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s. King worked for his master, John Godwin who owned a successful

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Source: Black Past

Feb

3

1846

Holly, James Theodore (1829-1911)

James Theodore Holly emigrationist, missionary, and bishop, was born in Washington, D.C on October 3, 1829. At age fourteen his family relocated to Brooklyn, New York. His father taught him the shoemaking trade. Then in 1848 he began working as an abolitionist with Lewis Tappan, one of the

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Oct

3

1829

Zimbabwe: Relief in Maphisa As Electricity Is Restored After 10-Month Blackout

This was after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) had reported the theft of 42 spans (seven kilometres) of copper cables, plunging residents into nearly a year of total

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African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1792- )

Originally established as The African Church, The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in 1792 by and for persons of African descent to foster personal and religious freedoms and self-determination. The original African Church was an outgrowth of the Free African Society, a mutual aid

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Source: Black Past

Iran oil tanker reaches Venezuela amid US tension | New York Carib News

The first of five Iranian oil tankers – Fortune, Forest, Petunia, Faxon, and Clavel – has entered Venezuela’s waters carrying more than a million barrels of fuel, and being escorted by the Venezuelan navy and air

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Source: The New York Carib News

Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I | National Archives

While the Great War raged in Europe for three long years, America steadfastly clung to neutrality. It was not until April 2, 1917, that President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. The world, he said, must be made safe for democracy. Quickly, Americans swung into action to

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Source: Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

Apr

2

1917

Bambaataa, Afrika (1957- )

One of hip-hop cultures most influential pioneers, Afrika Bambaataa was the first to articulate an ideology for the emerging youth culture, using the music to illustrate hip-hops expansive potential as a global movement. As a DJ and recording artist, Bambaataa embraced every musical genre to

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Jessye, Eva (1895-1992)

Eva Jessye was a pioneer in the world of African American music and is recognized as the first black woman to receive international distinction as a choral director. She was born in Coffeyville, Kansas on January 20, 1895 to Albert and Julia Jessye, but was raised by various relatives after her

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Source: Black Past

Oct

1

1978

(1850) Samuel Ringgold Ward, “Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill”

Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1864), was one of the most prominent of the anti-slavery speakers in the nation by the 1850s. Born into slavery in Maryland, he escaped with his mother to New Jersey. In 1834 when he was 17 Ward was attacked by a pro-slavery mob in New York and was temporarily

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Source: Black Past

Apr

5

1850

Robeson, Paul (1898-1976)

Paul Robeson is best known as a world famous athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the human rights of people throughout the world. Over the course of his career Robeson combined all of these activities into a lifelong quest for racial justice. He used his deep baritone voice to communicate the

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Source: Black Past

Jan

23

1976

What Can I Do With A Black Studies Major?

220 Answers

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Source: Black Past

Rustin, Bayard (1910-1987)

Bayard Rustin was one of the most important, and yet least known, Civil Rights advocates in the twentieth century. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandmother, Julia, was both a Quaker and an active member of the National Association for the

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Source: Black Past

Aug

24

1987

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Following the Union Army victory at Antietam, Maryland on September 17, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation. This document gave the states of the Confederacy until January 1, 1863 to lay down their arms and peaceably reenter the Union; if these states

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African Americans in Ghana

The history of African Americans in Ghana goes back to individuals such as American civil rights activist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois, who settled in Ghana in the last years of his life and is buried in the capital Accra. Since then, other African Americans who are descended from slaves imported

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Source: ThoughtCo

Little Rock Crisis, 1957

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. One year later the Court reiterated its ruling calling on school districts throughout the United States to desegregate their public schools “with all deliberate

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Source: Black Past

Young, Jr., Perry (1919-1998)

Perry Young, Jr, an airplane and helicopter pilot, was the first African American person to be hired by a commercial airline with regularly scheduled passenger flights. Young was born to his parents Henry Young, Sr. and Edith Lucille Young on March 12, 1919 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His father

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Maynard, Robert C. (1937-1993)

Robert C. Maynard, the first African American editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, was known as a trailblazing journalist who led efforts to desegregate newsrooms and educate minority students to pursue careers in

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Source: Black Past

Aug

19

1993

7 Stocks to Buy During a Recession or Pandemic

Local economists agree that during times of recession the rich hold on to as many cash cows as they can and don’t go out splurging or spending all of their stimulus check

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