"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway." -Mother Teresa
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 13, 1903, Ella Baker was one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. She grew up in rural North Carolina. Baker was close to her grandmother, a former slave. Her grandmother told Baker many stories about her life, including a whipping she …
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Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois to Leon Nash and Dorothy Bolton Nash. Nash grew up a Roman Catholic and attended parochial and public schools in Chicago. In 1956, she graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Illinois and began her college career at Howard University in Washington, …
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Today in Black history... 1. 1996 - J.C. Watts becomes the first Black selected to respond to a state of the union address. 2. 1986 - A stamp of Sojourner Truth is issued by the U.S. Postal Service 3. 1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Two persons killed. Until the 9th. 4. …
On this day in Black history... 1. 1997 - First 24-Hour Black Movie Channel BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz the first 24 hour Black Movie channel. 2. 1997 - Black Facts Online Goes Live! Black Facts Online, the premiere spot for Black history goes online. 3. 1990 - Original Sit-In Revisited …
