James Reese Europe of Mobile, Alabama is known to be the first African-American musician to record music in the United States. Since he was 10 years old, he studied music with the local Marine Corps band before moving to New York with his family in 1904. Europe would find a leadership role with the well-known […]
It is time for students around the country to go back to school, and everywhere they will be receiving advice on how to have a successful academic year. But what about their parents? http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/life_style/home_family_life_style/20882
most of us, at some point in our lives, have been impacted by a special teacher who went beyond their job requirements to affect us in a lasting way. I have been fortunate to have experienced and been blessed by several such individuals. Two, in particular, have played major roles in challenging me to broaden […]
A 16-year-old girl named Achieng Ajulu-Bushell will be the first black female swimmer to represent Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics. She defected from her home country of Kenya to go for her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Britain, though her native country of birth is Manchester, England http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/20835
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner, also known as the Black Patti, was a late 19th century African-American soprano opera singer who was the first black to sing at the Music Hall in New York – before it was Carnegie Hall. Her voice was so melodic, she was compared to the famous Italian opera singer Adelina Patti – […]
Celebrities do a lot of thing for the greater good. Many are involved in philanthropy and have foundations that support good causes, but some celebs have taken things a step further. They’ve actually started their own schools, or have become involved in educational institutions that may shape some young minds for the future. Here are […]
Philippa Duke Schuyler was a child prodigy who was famous for her remarkable work on the piano and for being the mixed race child of an eccentric mixed family in the 1930s http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/20761
Monday mornings are rough for me. No matter how relaxing the weekend was, I’m up very early, and after hospital rounds, I head to the parish prison to provide health care to inmates. East Baton Rouge Parish Prison houses 1,500 men and women. Unfortunately, approximately 90 percent of the male population looks like me – […]
In 1950, a woman named Mary Jean Price had a dream of attending Southwestern Missouri State College. The Springfield, Missouri native had worked hard, becoming salutatorian at Lincoln High School. Going to a school further than SMSC wasn’t an option for Price; her father’s heart was failing, and she couldn’t afford to go to Lincoln […]
DNA analysis has been taken to a whole new level on the PBS series Faces Of America hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In it the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard explores genetics and ancestral lineage in a way that blends science & history and gives evidence of the cross cultural ties of […]
David H. O’Neal Jr. sits under the shade of a tent on a hot Thursday afternoon in Galveston with a story to tell. He is waiting for children to arrive, so he can tell them about a black man who excelled in a white man’s time. As the children seat themselves, the story of Richard […]
