Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was forced to travel a significant distance to elementary school due to racial segregation, her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that school seg ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th 2018 at 9:13AM
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NBK History Brothers present Jungle Fever. White folks and their obsession with the Jungle and Congo.
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Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 8:48PM
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The History Brothers discuss the first Africans in New York and the African Burial Ground.
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Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 8:36PM
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The World’s First African-American Rolls Royce Car Dealer
Thomas Moorehead is not only the first African American Rolls Royce car dealer but the only Rolls Royce dealership in greater Washington, D.C. He is thriving in one of the wealthiest comm ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 7:18PM
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Roscoe Robinson Jr. (October 11, 1928 – July 22, 1993) was the first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army. He was born on October 11, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended St. Louis University for only a year ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 7:11PM
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Team NBK present the History of Drum Magazine.
Drum was started in 1951, as African Drum by former test cricketer and author Bob Crisp and Jim Bailey an ex-R.A.F. pilot, son of South African financier Sir Abe Bailey.
Initially under Crisp's editorship, the magazine had a paternalistic, tribal ...
Posted Sunday, March 25th 2018 at 9:49AM
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Willie and George Muse were black albino brothers born in Roanoke, VA in 1893. In 1899 they were kidnapped by sideshow agents and told there mother had died and they would never see her again. They were showcased as White Ecuadorian cannibals, Eko and Iko. In the mid 1920s the brothers toured with R ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:20PM
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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:34PM
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Millie and Christine McCoy (1851-1912) were conjoined twins born into slavery. They and their mother were sold to a showman, Joseph Smith. Smith and his wife educated the girls; they eventually could speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. ...
Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 3:29PM
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Gangster Music and Gangsta Rap are said to have their birth in the 1980s. The truth is..... none of that is true.
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Posted Saturday, March 24th 2018 at 11:55AM
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Samuel "Sam" Sharpe
The leader of a Maafa (slavery) rebellion in Jamaica in 1831 which became known as the Christmas Rebellion. The uprising lasted 10 days and spread throughout the entire island, mobilizing as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:10AM
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Katherine Johnson
The NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a fem ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2018 at 9:00AM
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