Black History Cat running thru the 28th
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts. Cole acquired his nickname, “King”, a nickname presumably […]
Andrew “Rube” Foster was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. Most notably, he organized the Negro National League on this day in 1920, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers which operated from 1920 to 1931. […]
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the […]
Shame on you Loyola University. A sign posted earlier this week at the Damen Dining Hall on the university’s Rogers Park campus had encouraged students to “Try our African American cuisine popular in the African American […]
There’s an old saying in the South, “A child’s gotta eat their share of dirt.” I remember a trip my parents took me and my brothers on when we were young. We went to North […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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