Fisk University Makes History, Debuts As First HBCU Gymnastics Team In NCAA

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Fisk University Makes History, Debuts As First HBCU Gymnastics Team In NCAA

On Friday (January 6), the team became the first from a historically Black college or university to appear in an NCAA meet, traveling to Las Vegas for the Super 16 event.

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IN MEMORIAM: Leaders reflect on the life of Congressman John Lewis | The Orlando Advocate

THE CHICAGO CRUSADER — On Sunday, March 7, 1965 in Selma, Alabama, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were on their way to the state capitol fighting for the right to vote. On the other side of the bridge were the Alabama State

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Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, Dies At Age 80

The Georgia Democrat who helped organize the March on Washington and was called the "conscience of Congress," has died.

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James Weldon Johnson

Trained in music and other subjects by his mother, a schoolteacher, Johnson graduated from Atlanta University with A.B. (1894) and M.A. (1904) degrees and later studied at Columbia University. For several years he was principal of the black high school in Jacksonville, Fla. He read law at the same

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MLB Hall of Famer Hank Aaron dies at 86 | Atlanta Daily World

MLB Hall of Famer and humanitarian leader Hank Aaron dies at 86 According to an Aaron family insider, baseball legend 'Hammerin' Hank' Aaron died Friday morning after suffering a massive stroke. Born Feb. 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama, “Hammerin’ Hank” reached the majors at age 20, when he hit .280

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Gibbs 2020 Hall of Fame induction ceremony

The Gibbs Gladiator Alumni Association inducted 16 new extraordinary athletes into the Gladiator Hall of earlier this year. By Raven Joy Shonel, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG - For more than a quarter of a century, the Gibbs Gladiator Alumni Association has been celebrating extraordinary athletes and

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Lewis, John R. (1940- )

John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940. In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in

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Percy Julian was born on April 11, 1899 in Birmingham, Alabama, one of six children. His father, a railroad mail clerk, and his mother, a school teacher stressed education to their children. This emphasis would ultimately prove successful as two sons went on to become physicians and three daughters

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Lord Beaconsfield Landry: Physician, Civil Leader, and Extraordinaire Vocal Soloist

Lord Beaconsfield Landry was an American physician, civic leader and incredible vocal soloist. Landry was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and his father, Pierre Landry, was the first Black mayor of the town. Landry received his early education in Donaldsonville schools and completed his high

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Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014)[1] was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of

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Black Church Assaults Continue

R.H. Boyd, since 1896, has published Sunday School books, church hymnals, Vacation Bible School marketing materials and study guides for the nation’s 8.5 million African American Baptists. Boyd Publishing is one of two independently Black-owned publishing companies that produces and prints

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John Lewis remembered by Birmingham-Area Leaders as an Icon, Hero

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, Alabama Senator Doug Jones and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama were among the hundreds of leaders who mourned the passing of Congressman John Lewis, the iconic Civil Rights leader from Alabama, who passed on Friday. He was

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Fisk president named in restraining order filed by alleged ex-lover - TheGrio

The president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee has just been placed under a restraining order after claims of harassing... View Article The post Fisk president named in restraining order filed by alleged ex-lover appeared first on TheGrio.

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Trump and Biden fight for Black male voters - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

WASHINGTON (CBS) — A group of Black men in Nashville aren’t taking their fitness or voice for granted. “We’re building health and wellness. We’re also building brotherhood,” Demetrius Short told CBS News correspondent Nikole Killion. Every week, Short leads runners through the streets of

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John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80 - Black News Channel

ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing

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Watt, Melvin Luther (1945- )

Carolina in the 20th century, Mel Watts is a current member of the United States House of Representatives. Watts was born on August 26, 1945 in the small community of Steele Creek in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and attended high school in Charlotte. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science

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McFerrin, Robert Keith, Sr. (1921–2006)

In 1953 baritone Robert McFerrin Sr. made history as the first African American to win the Metropolitan Opera House’s Auditions of the Air radio contest. On January 27, 1955, in the role of Ethiopian King Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida, McFerrin made history again by becoming the first African American

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(1949) Ralph J. Bunche, “The Barriers of Race Can be Surmounted”

In his years as a Howard University professor in the 1930s, Ralph J. Bunche subscribed to Marxist ideas. However by 1949 Bunche was Acting United Nations Mediator for Palestine and had become much more conservative. His then contemporary views were reflected in a commencement address given at

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C. T. Vivian’s Place in History is Secure! - The Atlanta Inquirer

C. T. Vivian’s Place in History is Secure! By Bunnie Hayes Jackson-Ransom First Class, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia https://www.FClassInc.com/ Special Correspondent to The Atlanta Inquirer Dr. Vivian was a walking-talking history book. Maybe I know this because our paths cross so very much lately. We show

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C.T. Vivian’s commitment to equality and nonviolence made him a happy warrior for the ages - African American News Today - EIN News

… altercation there. After hundreds of black Americans were blocked by the county … 96 on July 28. Many black Americans consider Vivian; Lewis; Lowery, who … , they and millions of other black Americans of their era survived battle …

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(BPRW) Adopt-An-HBCU Good Trouble Voter Drive Spearheaded by Celebrities Launches on the First-Ever National Black Voter Registration Day | Press releases

(BPRW) Adopt-An-HBCU Good Trouble Voter Drive Spearheaded by Celebrities Launches on the First-Ever National Black Voter Registration Day (Black PR Wire) ATLANTA - HBCU Heroes (501c3), founded by NBA Veteran…

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[Poem] Dreams by Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni is one of the best-known African-American poets who reached prominence during the late 1960s and early

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C. T. Vivian dies at age 95, place in history is secure | New Pittsburgh Courier

By Bunnie Jackson-Ransom Cordy Tindell Vivian (July 30, 1924 – July 17, 2020)) was an American minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement. Vivian continued to reside in Atlanta, Georgia and founded the C. T. Vivian Leadership

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When racists bombed home of Percy Julian, the trailblazing chemist who saved lives - Face2Face Africa

The obstacles put in the path of Percy Lavon Julian could disjoint a saint but he persevered and achieved excellence. Julian, born in Montgomery, Alabama on April 11, 1899, to a railway mail clerk, came from a stock of enslaved grandparents. And when he arrived, the world was prejudiced in all

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Talking With the National Museum of African American Music's Dr. Steven Lewis - African American News Today - EIN News

… people evolved into distinctly African American styles, to the … and our understanding of African American music, and Black … , the struggle that African Americans have faced from the … time talking about the African American executives at major labels …

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Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett - Death

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett , née Ida Bell Wells (born July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S.—died March 25, 1931, Chicago, Illinois), African American journalist who led an antilynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African

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Evelyn Boyd Granville is born

Evelyn Boyd Granville, Born May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School, a segregated high school at the time. Her interest in mathematics was encouraged by two mathematics teachers. Granville worked with Einar Hille, a distinguished mathematician in the field of functional

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The 'Conscience of the Congress', U. S. Rep. John Lewis, Dies at 80 - Voice and Viewpoint

By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) - He was the son of a sharecropper who came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress” and has been described by a list of other heroic terms: From the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who called him the “founding father of American Democracy” to President Barack

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Peyton Manning sponsors 6 HBCU scholarships - TheGrio

Louisiana native and former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning has sponsored six endowed scholarships at historically Black colleges and universities, with... View Article The post Peyton Manning sponsors 6 HBCU scholarships appeared first on TheGrio.

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John Lewis Dead at 80; Civil Rights Icon and Congressman Passes After Pancreatic Cancer Fight

News reports say he passed away at home in Atlanta.

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