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
Late, great multiple Grammy Award winner James Joseph Brown Jr., inductee in the Rock and Roll and Songwriters’ halls of fame, was and still is known as the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One and, as appointed by Gen. Colin Powell in 2003, the first U.S. secretary […]
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
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
Some of the best songs are not born of one mind, but instead result from the collaboration of great artists. In 1984 Zapp And Roger’s “Computer Love” was a top 10 Billboard hit featuring Charlie Wilson and Shirley Murdock. In this interview for TheUrbandaily.com Uncle Charlie tells the hilarious story of Roger coming to his […]
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
The Tuskegee syphilis study was one of the most notorious biomedical experiments in U.S. history. In 1972, Jean Heller of the Washington Evening Star wrote a front-page story titled “Syphilis Patients Died Untreated,” making the experiment public knowledge and bringing shame to the U.S. Public Health Service for their 40-year conspiracy. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/26324
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