http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25193 Jazz musician Freddie Keppard, also known as King Keppard, was known in New Orleans jazz circles for his amazing skills with the coronet. A participant in the “cutting contests” that jazz musicians conducted to prove who was at the top, Keppard kept his title of king until 1914, when Joe Oliver took his crown. […]
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25154 In Oxford, North Carolina in 1970, a Vietnam veteran by the name of Henry Marrow, also known as Dickie, was murdered in a hate crime by Roger Oakley, Robert Teel and Larry Teel. The events following his murder would spark an outrage that reached the entire black community all over the country.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25040 Last year, British archeologists analyzed the remains of an African woman said to be of high status in the Roman Empire. Her existence and burial were dated around the second half of the fourth century.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24959 Omar Ibn Said was a prominent Senegalese slave born in the late 1700s who had spent over 20 years studying with Muslim scholars in Africa before being captured and brought to Charleston, South Carolina.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24916 The Stono Rebellion of 1739 was known as the largest slave rebellion in history before the American Revolution. The South Carolina revolt was led by native Africans of the Congo, one in particular named Jemmy, a.k.a. Cato.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24871 John Mitchell Jr. of Richmond, Virginia built a reputation in publishing as the first editor of the weekly newspaper, The Richmond Planet. Mitchell used his voice within the paper to fight against lynchings in Virginia, gaining the nickname the “Fighting Negro Editor.”
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24810 The Colored Hockey League of Maritimes in Nova Scotia was formed in 1894 across the provinces of Canada 22 years before the National Hockey League. The first all-black ice hockey league held over a dozen teams and employed over 400 African-Canadian players.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24769 Black World War II chemist Dr. Samuel P. Massie Jr. is noted for his work on uranium isotopes for the atomic bomb. He made history as the first black faculty member of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1966.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24248 Dr. Herbert Smitherman was a pioneering executive and professional chemist at Proctor & Gamble who led the way for other African-Americans at the prestigious company in the 1960s. He was the first black person with a doctorate hired at Proctor & Gamble.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24136 Claude McKay was a pioneering Jamaican-American poet and author during the Harlem Renaissance, who released the first publications of that historic period in black history.
Marian Anderson, a contralto opera singer, was the first black person to perform at the renowned Metropolitan Opera of New York in January of 1955. Her work as an accomplished singer served as a catalyst of civil rights for many musicians. She was born to a family led by a father who sold liquor for […]
Lobo the Cowboy was the first African-American comic superhero originated by Dell Comics in 1965. Created by writer D.J. Arneson and illustrated by Tony Tallarico, Lobo was a gun-toting, wealthy African-American cowboy in the old West. In the short-lived series of only two issues featuring Lobo, the character was known to leave his signature item. […]
