Latest #racism Podcast Episodes
May 7 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 7. J. R. Winters received a patent for the fire escape ladder. He was born in Leesburg, Virginia to an African-American brickmaker and a Shawnee Indian mother, who was the daughter of a noted herbalist and medical practitioner. In 1830...
May 6 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 6. President Eisenhower signed civil rights act. (On September 4, 1957, nine African American students were due to enter the school, a previously all-white institution. These students were blocked by 270 National Guard troops who had be...
May 5 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 05, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 5. Adam Clayton Powell Sr. was born. He was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members. He was a founder of the Nation...
May 4 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 04, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 4. Kimora Lee Simmons was born. She is an American entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV personality, author, philanthropist and model. Kimora was born of African American and Japanese heritage. She attended public school, but when she gr...
May 3 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 03, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 3. Sugar Ray Robinson was born. He was an American professional boxer, considered by many authorities to have been the best fighter in history. Robinson originally aspired to be a doctor, but after dropping out of High School he switch...
May 2 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 02, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 2. First game of the Negro National Baseball League. The first viable Black league was formed in 1920 under the leadership of Rube Foster, manager of the Chicago American Giants. He had been Negro baseball’s best pitcher in the early ye...
May 1 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - May 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for May 1st. Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. She graduated from Wilson Junior College in Chicago in 1936. Her early verses appeared in the Chicago Defender, a newspaper written primarily for that ...
April 30 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 30. Michelle Howard was born. She was the first African American woman to command a United States Navy ship. She also became the highest-ranking woman in the United States Armed Forces history. During high school Howard applied to th...
April 29 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 29. Duke Ellington was born. One of the originators of big-band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music. ...
April 28 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 28, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 28. Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. became the first Black Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He attended Virginia Union University but left before graduating to join the Naval Reserve in 1942. He was commissioned in 1944 and served during World War I...
April 27 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 27. Coretta Scott King was born. She was an American civil rights activist who was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. She graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and in 1951 enrolled at the New England Conservatory o...
April 26 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 26, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 26. Gertrude Ma Rainey was born. She was a singer who was known as the “mother of the blues” and who was recognized as the first great professional blues vocalist. She began her career as a performer at a talent show in Columbus, Geo...
April 25 - BlackFacts.com Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 25, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 25. United Negro College Fund was founded. It is is a philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for Black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically Black colleges and universities. The organization a...
April 24 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 24, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 24. Mathematician David Blackwell was born. He made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He also broke racial barriers when he was named the first African American...
April 23 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 23, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 23. Inventor Granville T. Woods was born. He was known for devising a number of new electrical devices for the railroads. His inventions helped make rail travel safer and faster. Woods studied engineering at night school and became a...
April 22 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 22, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 22. Bob Marley One Love Concert. It was a large concert held at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, and was held during a political civil war between opposing parties Jamaican Labour Party and the People's National Party. With...
April 21 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 21, 2022 15:08 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 21. Prince passed away. He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer among the most talented American musicians of his generation. Prince’s recording career began with funk and soul marketed to a Black audience; his early mus...
April 21 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 21, 2022 15:06 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 21. Prince passed away. He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer among the most talented American musicians of his generation. Prince’s recording career began with funk and soul marketed to a Black audience; his early mus...
April 20 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 20, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutesBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 20. The United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools. The Burger Court in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education ruled that the school district must achieve racial balance ...
April 19 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 19. Max Robinson became the 1st African-American journalist to anchor a nightly network newscast. Robinson’s first journalism job began and ended in 1959, when he was hired to read news at a Portsmouth, Va., television station. In 1...
April 18 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 18, 2022 15:05 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 18. The American Nicodemus Town Company is founded. It is the only remaining western community established by African Americans after the Civil War. Having an important role in American History, the town symbolizes the pioneering spi...
April 17 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 18, 2022 15:02 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 17. Ralph Abernathy passed away. He was a pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King’s chief aide and closest associate during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1948...
April 16 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 16, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 16. Birthday of Essex Hemphill. He was an influential poet, award-winning editor, memorable performance artist, and fearless activist. Hemphill's first books were the self-published chapbooks "Earth Life" (1985) and "Conditions" (198...
April 15 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 15, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 15. Birthday of Norma Merrick Sklarek. She was the first African American woman to pass her license exam to officially become an architect in both New York and California. Sklarek graduated from Columbia in 1950 with a B.Arch., one o...
April 14 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 14. Tiger Woods wins Third Masters Golf Tournament. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and one of the most famous athletes of all time. He has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame. Following an ...
April 13 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 13, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 13. The Colfax Massacre. During the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, the South was in turmoil. Many Republican politicians, who controlled the federal government, wanted equality for African Americans. In 1872 a...
April 12 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 12. Josephine Baker passed away. She was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black w...
April 11 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 11, 2022 15:39 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 11. Birthday of chemist Percy Julian. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant s...
April 10 - BlackFacts Minute
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 minuteBlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 10. Howard Thurman passed away. He was an American Baptist preacher and theologian, the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, and a founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation...
BlackFacts Educational Series - Mansa Musa
BlackFacts.com: Learn/Teach/Create Black History - April 09, 2022 18:26 - 4 minutesMANSA MUSA, THE TENTH MANSA OF THE MALI EMPIRE Musa I (circa 1280 – 1337), or Mansa Musa, was the tenth Mansa (a military title meaning "conqueror" or "emperor “) of the Mali Empire, an Islamic West African state. At the time of Musa's ascension to the throne, Mali in large part consisted of t...
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