Category: Historical Figures
A Rap with Colin L. Powell
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A discussion of Gen. Colin Powell and whether Americans would elect a black President. (1918)
Legends of Music
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“LEGENDS OF MUSIC” This edition features the thoughts and music of some of the world’s most talented legendary entertainers, including Eubie Blake, Chuck Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Hampton and Charles Brown.
Oscar and Jackie, Two of the Same
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Patrick McGilligan is the author of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only, The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of this little-known pioneer. (3019)
Africa’s Gift to America
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Tony Brown's Journal Clarifies the Impact of J. A. Rogers 🌍 This “Iconic, seminal Historian For All People” …. Joel Augustus Rogers (J. A. Rogers) was one of the earliest popularizers of African and African-American ...
Tuskegee Airmen — Clipped Wings – Pt. 1
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The pilots of America’s WWII armed forces were highly skilled flyers who became the stars of war stories and the ingredients of legends. These pilots were and are the first line of defense, the protectors of our fl...
Frederick Douglass: Orator, Statesman, Abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
The Black Leaders Summit of 1972 and the 1998 Follow Up: Part I
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An unprecedented gathering of the top Black leaders in 1972 appeared in a live 90-minute special, among the guests: Charles Diggs, Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, Albert Cleage, Jr., Dick Gregory, and Elijah Muhammad (...
