Anytime we see a Soldier we naturally
are in awe.
It is your courage and sacrifice that
we admire.
Today America says Thank You!
From our National Guard Military
Family to yours....
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Posted Monday, May 28th 2018 at 3:36PM
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May we immerse ourselves in a good read!
Phil Jackson is a man I've admired since
his days as a Coach of the Chicago Bulls!
As I search for inspiration and good teachings
to get through the journey called life I was led
to Phil Jackson.
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Posted Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 at 12:32PM
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A short family friendly presentation on the great elder Edward Wilmot Blyden.
"Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912), the father of pan-Africanism, was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. Born in ...
Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 9:54AM
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Known as the Primer Libertador de America or “first liberator of the Americas,” Gaspar Yanga led one of colonial Mexico’s first successful slave uprisings and would go on to establish one of the Americas earliest free black settlements.
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Posted Friday, May 11th 2018 at 9:22AM
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The Kaabu Empire
Was a Mandinka kingdom of Senegambia centered within modern northeastern Guinea-Bissau but extending into Casamance in Senegal. It rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. Af ...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th 2018 at 12:39PM
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Bro. Dark presents the Cakewalk.
"The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations after emancipation in the Southern United States."
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Posted Sunday, May 6th 2018 at 6:31PM
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At 15 years old! Saheela Ibraheem, of Edison, was also accepted to MIT and 13 other schools including Princeton and Columbia before settling on Harvard after falling in love with the campus. Ibraheem skipped two grades and said the key to success is ...
Posted Tuesday, May 1st 2018 at 2:01PM
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Liberian peace activist, author, and 2011 Nobel Prize winner was born on February 1, 1972. She grew up in Bong County in central Liberia. In 1990, when Leymah was 17, she left for the capital, Monrovia, just before the nearly decade old civil war rea ...
Posted Tuesday, May 1st 2018 at 12:10PM
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Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a ...
Posted Tuesday, May 1st 2018 at 12:07PM
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This amazing young Brother, 12-year-old Stephen Stafford, was primarily home-schooled by his mother. This mathematics and science prodigy was accepted to Morehouse College. This story is an excellent example of what our youth are capable of. (Don't ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 8:45AM
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Yvette Carnell is founder of BreakingBrown.com.
Before embarking on a career in new media, she served as a Congressional aide on Capitol Hill.
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Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 8:40AM
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A civil rights activist responsible for founding three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He later established America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cameron is also the only known ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 6:44AM
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James Edward Maceo West
Is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962 while developing instruments for human hearing research. Nearly 90 percent of more than two billion m ...
Posted Sunday, April 29th 2018 at 6:34AM
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TEAM NBK'S LOGYC Presents:
Robert Reed Church (June 18, 1839 – August 29, 1912) was an Black entrepreneur, businessman and landowner in Memphis, Tennessee. BLACK POWER in the 1800's, he began his rise during the American Civil War. He was the fir ...
Posted Friday, April 27th 2018 at 11:27AM
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TRUTHSTORIAN and RA BORN have a great build on how European Missionaries Christianized Africa and also the Missionary connection to Black Colleges.
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Posted Wednesday, April 25th 2018 at 11:58AM
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Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles.
Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win ...
Posted Tuesday, April 24th 2018 at 10:43AM
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NBK member Kedrick Smith of A.A.C. (African Action Commission) gives a quick overview of what they are doing in the community. They had an excellent turn out ... Many thanks to all those in attendance! Be sure to visit and like the Facebook page for events and updates! #AAC https://www.facebook.com ...
Posted Saturday, April 21st 2018 at 8:57PM
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Priceless photo of enslaved Selina Gray who was the head housekeeper for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. She is credited with defending Arlington House during the Civil War and thereby saving treasured heirlooms belonging to George Washington.
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Posted Friday, April 20th 2018 at 7:16PM
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Solomon G. Brown (1829-1906)
He was a poet, lecturer, and scientific technician, became the first African American employee at the Smithsonian Institution. He also played a significant role in the implementation of the first electric telegraph and ...
Posted Friday, April 20th 2018 at 7:13PM
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All World - A look at some of the most multi talented Black athletes in American history. These guys weren't just All Stars. They were All World! Including rare footage you have never seen before. True Story !
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Posted Friday, April 20th 2018 at 2:42PM
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The fourth PAC was organized in 1927 in New York by the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations, a black women's club in New York led by Minnie Pickens, Addie W. Hunton, and Nina Du Bois, W.E.B.'s first wife. The Congress gathered 208 delegates from the United States and ten fore ...
Posted Thursday, April 19th 2018 at 6:47AM
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Elizabeth Carter Brooks’
Was an educator, architect and social activist.
After graduating from New Bedford High School, she entered the Swain Free School of Design and received a classical education in architecture and design, which served h ...
Posted Thursday, April 19th 2018 at 6:45AM
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Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1953 until his death in 1968. Coretta Scott King helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King was an active advocate for African-Amer ...
Posted Thursday, April 19th 2018 at 6:42AM
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The Negro Motorist Green Book (The Negro Motorist Green-Book or titled The Negro Travelers' Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, commonly referred to simply as the Green Book. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 19 ...
Posted Wednesday, April 18th 2018 at 10:26AM
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John Amos on why he stopped doing "Good Times" ...
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Posted Monday, April 16th 2018 at 5:31PM
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