The Dow Jones plunged more than 1,000 points on Thursday in another volatile day for the stock market. It was the second-worst single-day point drop in history, beaten only by the record set after this Monday’s 1,175-point drop. […]
Andrew Rooney was an television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney”, a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. On this day in 1990, CBS […]
Dennis Edwards Jr. was a lead singer in The Temptations, on Motown Records. Edwards was born February 3, 1943 and passed away just 2 days before his birthday on February 1, 2018. He would have been 75 […]
Germaine “You Gonna Get Yours” Moore, 44, was arrested in Alabama in connection with a sexually explicit video featuring a young black child. He faces charges of sexual assault of a child, distribution of video depicting the assault of a […]
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson pioneered the celebration of “Negro History Week”, designated for the second week in February, to coincide with marking the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. However, it was the Black United Students and Black […]
In 1815, Paul Cuffee, an African-American Quaker, led a small group of freed slaves to Sierra Leone, where they were able to establish a colony. The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 by a group of […]
Byron De La Beckwith was found guilty of the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on February 5, 1994, 31 years after the crime was actually committed. De La Beckwith was arrested and brought to […]
I recently received one of the most vile shares I have ever seen. Although I did not view the video, the picture was something you cannot “un-see”. My heart started racing and I became physically […]
State Rep. Jeanne Ives, a social and fiscal conservative lawmaker trying to unseat Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is standing by a campaign ad that has been blasted as racist and homophobic. Defending the ad, State Rep. Ives […]
Super Bowl XLI was the first time two African-American head coaches have led their teams to the Super Bowl. The Colts defeated the Bears by the score of 29–17. The game was played on February 4, 2007, […]
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