http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24099 During the summer of 1919, racially-charged attacks against African-Americans rose heavily in 26 United States cities. This time period came to be labeled by James Weldon Johnson and the NAACP as the Red Summer.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/24070 NBC News announced Tuesday that Jeff Johnson, a commentator on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” has been named a contributor to MSNBC, as well as a senior correspondent for TheGrio.com.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/24025 George Gibbs Jr. is the first black man to arrive at Antarctica, also known as the South Pole.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23993 The O’Jays have long been one of soul music’s most enduring groups.
Benjamin Harrison Fletcher was a strong figurehead of labor before and during World War I who was imprisoned for his work as a leader of the his interracial “Local 8” labor organization, deemed a radical union. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/23986
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=blog_inner/23487/1573138/The Fly Jock I had planned to do this blog on my way back from the Soul Train Awards, but since it was so late at night/early in the morning, I fell asleep midway. But as I rested, I reminisced about all that “Soul Train” meant to black people.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23895 If there has ever been a more amazing comeback in modern R&B history than that of El DeBarge, we don’t know what it is.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/23889 Ophelia Settle Egypt was a social worker and sociologist known for helping former slaves and free blacks discover their freedoms and tell their stories. Setting the stage for the Works Progress Administration that would develop a decade after she made her mark, Egypt would help her Fisk University colleague, Charles Johnson, interview 100 ex-slaves […]
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/23853 William Lewis of Berkley, Virginia made several strides in black history, which include becoming the first black to play collegiate level football, the first black All-American athlete, and the first black assistant U.S. attorney general.
NASA is looking for underserved and underrepresented college students for a program that allows them to design, build, fly and evaluate gravity experiments. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/moving_america_news/23855
In 1860, a white family of wealthy landowners by the last name of Halstead gifted one acre of land to the blacks of Rye, New York to be used as a burial ground for black Civil-War Veterans. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/23819
Charles Alston (a.k.a. “Spinky”) of Charlotte, North Carolina was an artist who taught the best of the Harlem Renaissance. Among Alston’s students was the great painter Jacob Lawrence. To earn a living while studying his craft, Alston was an illustrator, designing album covers for Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/23791
