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Black History Month Feature: Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary War Hero

By Lady Houston FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution. While he is widely remembered as […]

Daily Almanac for Sunday, February 4, 2024

By StephanieLee FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Natalie Jane Imbruglia (/ɪmˈbruːliə/ im-BROO-lee-ə, Italian: [imˈbruʎʎa]; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian-British singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her cover of Ednaswap‘s song “Torn” which was a […]

Northwestern Wildcats Men’s Basketball: Dynamic Boo Buie Named to Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Top 10 List

By Sasha Colcheck 1/29/2024   FULL BOB COUSY RELEASE https://www.hoophall.com/news/naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame-announces-top-10-candidates-for-the-2024-bob-cousy-award/   EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern guard Boo Buie has been named one of the top 10 candidates for the 2024 Bob Cousy Award, The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Monday. Named after Class of 1971 Hall […]

Actor Carl Weathers, known for Roles in Rocky Movies, In the Heat of the Night & The Mandalorian, dead at 76

By StephanieLee Elliott FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Carl Weathers (January 14, 1948 – February 1, 2024) was an American actor, director and football linebacker. His roles included boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films (1976–1985), Colonel Al Dillon in Predator (1987), and Combat Carl in the Toy Story franchise. He also portrayed Det. Beaudreaux in the television series Street […]

Black History Month Feature: Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the Bus

By Danielle Daniels FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother […]

Black History Month Feature: Benjamin Banneker, a Jack-of-all Trades Man

By Lady Houston Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. […]

Daily Almanac for Saturday, January 27, 2024

By Brenda June Temple   FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with […]

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Brenda June Temple FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of […]