Lena Lowe Jordan: Registered Nurse & Hospital Administrator For Two Black Institutions...
Lena Lowe Jordan was an African-American registered nurse and hospital administrator who managed two institutions for blacks—a hospital for the care of cripp ...
Posted Friday, March 30th 2018 at 9:28AM
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NBK Truthstorian presents Give The Drummer Some, The Soundtrack of the African Diaspora. Give the Drummer Some explores the African diaspora and their connection to the drum.
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Posted Thursday, March 29th 2018 at 9:50PM
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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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I’d like to thank Dr. Ishmell Edwards and his staff at Rust College for graciously hosting me for the night as I make my way to the National Civil Rights Center in Memphis.
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Ken Johnston, 51, of Amherst, Massachusett ...
Posted Wednesday, March 28th 2018 at 12:28PM
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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 commun ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 7:18PM
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Edna Lewis (b.1916 - d.2006) was a Black chef and author best known for her books on traditional Southern cuisine. She was one of eight children. Her cookbooks include The Edna Lewis Cookbook (1972). This was followed by The Taste of Country Cooking ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 7:14PM
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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 a ...
Posted Tuesday, March 27th 2018 at 7:11PM
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In June I will have been blogging for 8 years, which is a pretty decent run for an original content blog that aims to put out useful, high quality material 48 weeks a year. One of the key success factors in blogging is trust. If you publish roughly t ...
Posted Monday, March 26th 2018 at 12:05PM
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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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