South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
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'Brown Bomber' was a hero to all
When he started boxing in the 1930s, there were no African-Americans in positions of public ... he became white America's first black hero." Louis was heavyweight champion of the world in an ...
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American Heroes: Rise of the Black Cowboy
In honor of Black History Month, Kenneth Pimpton is honored as an HBCU Game Changer for his contributions on the field as an All-Conference linebacker and two-time Academic All-American at Howard ...
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The African-Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War
The documentary "Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War ... since they considered Ethiopia as the only independent black country," says the co-director of the documentary ...
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African American Medical Pioneers
In 1913, he became the first African American to be inducted into ... Smith received a hero's welcome from New York's black community. He told the gathering, "I have striven to obtain education ...
Kerry Washington, Tyler Perry's 'Six Triple Eight' movie tells true story of Black women in WWII
Kerry Washington and filmmaker Tyler Perry join for "The Six Triple Eight" to highlight WWII's only all-Black Women's Army ...
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South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided ... s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and ...