We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! The violent, heroic actions of an illiterate black sailor threatened with enslavement enthralled newspaper and magazine readers during the tense early phase of the American Civil War. Born free in Milford, Delaware—a state that permitted slavery but had…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! With a guitar in hand, baseball cap over her eyes, and hooded sweatshirt loose, a woman sings with all of the poetry, pain, passion, and power her soul can muster. She is a new…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006)[1] was an American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Louis (Lewis) “Lou” Alexander Southworth was born July 4, 1830, in Tennessee. His father’s name was Hunter, but since he was born into slavery his surname was that of his master, James Southworth.  …

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Roscoe Conkling Giles (1890–1970) was an American medical doctor and surgeon. He was the first African American to earn a degree from Cornell University Medical College.[1] Giles worked as a surgeon at Provident Hospital…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Maria Davis-Pierre is the Founder and CEO of Autism in Black Inc. This organization aims to bring awareness to Autism and reduce the stigma associated with the diagnosis in the Black community. As a…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! From bebop to hip-hop: Gary Bartz’s sax sound shapes many eras June 23, 20222:58 PM ET Sarah Geledi From WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center 55-Minute Listen Gary Bartz Jonathan Chimene/WBGO For more than…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Louise Jenkins Meriwether, a novelist, essayist, journalist and social activist, was the only daughter of Marion Lloyd Jenkins and his wife, Julia.  Meriwether was born May 8, 1923 in Haverstraw, New York to parents…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Allyson Felix launches a child care initiative for athlete moms Allyson Felix is the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history. She has 11 Olympic medals, more than Carl Lewis (and Jamaica’s…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Check out more from Out Loud, our queer music column, here. Before becoming a musician, Dua Saleh was more likely to be known for their activist work (protesting against the school-to-prison pipeline) or their…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! New Mobility Person of the Year: Andrea Dalzell January 4, 2021 Teal Sherer At 6:45 p.m., on a warm spring evening, Andrea Dalzell pushes into the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York City.…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! June 18, 20226:47 AM ET Hamza Abdul-Mumit The joy Hamza Abdul-Mumit In memory of & tribute to my father, Sayyid Abdul-Mumit There was no callout for Black fathers to bring their children to the…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! June 16, 20225:10 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/06/16/1105224652/songs-to-believe-in-a-juneteenth-playlist Lara Downes This Juneteenth, I’m finding it hard to celebrate. It’s hard to reflect on freedom in this deafening swell of discord, this crescendo…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Michael S. Regan was sworn in as the 16th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 11, 2021, becoming the first Black man and second person of color to lead the…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! So a South Sudanese comic put on a comedy fest in a land of ‘suffering.’ How’d it go? Akau Jambo can find humor anywhere. In a joke about getting picked up by the police…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Nevada’s First Black Female Plumber Wants More Women in the Trades Last year, Evelyn Pacheco founded the Nevada Women in Trades, a nonprofit dedicated to help women pass exams required to enroll in apprenticeship…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet was the first African American female principal in the New York public schools.  The eldest of eleven children, she was born Minsarah Smith in Brooklyn in 1831.  Her parents, Sylvanus…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! ROME, Ga. — The request for a campaign contribution came in an email. Or was it a text? Gerald Luongo gets so many he can’t remember. Luongo does recall that he was eager to…

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We are highlighting examples of Black excellence throughout the year! Feel free to send us suggestions! Festus Claudius “Claude” McKay OJ (September 15, 1890[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, McKay first traveled to…

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