Black History

Hundley “told her to shut that (N-word) baby up,” FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement. She said Hundley then slapped the toddler  in the face, scratching the boy…

 Mississippi State capital Building Jackson MS Progress ?? Yesterday, The State of Mississippi officially ratified the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery … nearly 150 years after most of the states…

He Gave us So Many Memories, What Michaels Peers Remember About Him. “He was the greatest player I’ve ever seen, the greatest I ever could have imagined”- Magic Johnson “He was Immortal…

  Henry Ossian Flipper, photographed in his US Military Academy cadet uniform, ca. 1877. Flipper was the first African American graduate of West Point. * First African American West Point…

  NAME: Frederick Douglass OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist BIRTH DATE: c. February 1818 DEATH DATE: February 20, 1895 PLACE OF BIRTH: Tuckahoe, Maryland PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C. ORIGINALLY: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey *Douglass became the First African American nominated for…

NAME: Benjamin Banneker OCCUPATION: Astronomer, Engineer, Surveyor BIRTH DATE: November 09, 1731 DEATH DATE: October 25, 1806 PLACE OF BIRTH: Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland Benjamin Banneker has been called the first Great African American Scientist. As a self-taught…

In our society today we are inundated with science and technology everywhere we look. For most of us that is a good thing, regular almost pass’e in our 2017 existence.  However,…