Black female athlete Flo Hyman of Inglewood, California was a three-time all-American star player in volleyball and an Olympic medalist. She became one of America’s top athletes in the mid-1970s. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/28297
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis inducted the 1,300 workers who took part in the historic 1968 Memphis sanitation strike into the Labor Hall of Fame. The workers were part of the final protest of Martin Luther King, Jr. before his assassination. Eight surviving workers were at the White House to accept the […]
Owned by a Mormon named Robert Smith, Bridget “Biddy” Mason started her journey to freedom by walking 1,700 miles behind a 300-wagon caravan after her slave master called for a pilgrimage in 1848. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/27999
Archie Moore, a.k.a. Archibald Lee Wright, was boxing’s light heavyweight world champion between 1952 and 1959, a man who had one of the longest professional boxing careers in history. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/27369
If you’ve ever seen the famous pop-eyed mascot named Esky for the popular magazine Esquire, know that the design was created by E. Simms Campbell, a black man. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/27333
Jalacy “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins was a rock star musician who brought a gritty new sound to the stage with his hit song, “I Put a Spell On You.” http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/27257
Major Martin Robison Delany was the first African-American field officer in the U.S Army. After dealing with years of racism in America, he became one of the first abolitionists to encourage and construct a mission to return blacks to Africa. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/27166
Born in Haiti sometime between 1886 and 1889, Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche is said to be the only black man to die on the Titanic in 1912. A child of privilege, his uncle, Dessalines Leconte, was president of Haiti. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/26642
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is based on the ancestry of Grammy Award-winning artist Lionel Richie, who was featured on NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” Friday. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/26488
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25971 The American Colonization Society was established in 1816 by Reverend Robert Finley, a white Presbyterian minister. The society was born from Finley’s idea that blacks in the United States were a threat to the overall country and would only be able to fulfill their potential as human beings in Africa.
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http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25451 Lewis Temple was a slave, born in the year 1800, who was responsible for changing the whaling industry in the early 19th century. He would improve the usefulness of the whaling harpoon, which came to be known as Temple’s Toggle. Although he wasn’t actually a seaman, Temple, a blacksmith, would double the amount of […]
