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Black History Month Feature: W.E.B. DuBois, Socialist and Historian

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm […]

Black History Month Feature: Willie O’Ree; First Black to play in the NHL

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS William Eldon O’Ree CM ONB (born October 15, 1935) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is widely recognized for being the first Black player in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing as a winger for the Boston Bruins. His accomplishment of breaking the Black color barrier in the […]

Black History Month Feature: Dr. Charles R. Drew, American Surgeon and known for improvements in Blood Transfusions and Storage of Blood

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. […]

Black History Month Feature: Frederick Douglass, Statesman and Abolitionist

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass […]

Popular Country Singer Toby Keith loses battle with cancer at age 62

By Annie Walker FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Toby Keith Covel (July 8, 1961 – February 5, 2024), known professionally as Toby Keith, was an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. In the 1990s, he released his first four studio albums—Toby Keith (1993), Boomtown (1994), Blue Moon (1996), and Dream Walkin’ (1997)—and Greatest Hits Volume One under Mercury […]

Black History Month History Feature: George Washington Carver, Inventor and Agricultural Scientist

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century. While a professor at Tuskegee […]

Black History Month Feature: Ralph Bunche, Political scientist and Diplomat

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He is the […]

Black History Month Feature: Edward Brooke III, First African-American U.S. Senator

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first African American elected to the United States Senate […]

Black History Month Feature: Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, civil rights activist and humanitarian

By Lady Houston   FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization’s flagship journal Aframerican Women’s Journal, and presided as […]