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 m ...
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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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 p ...
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 first ...
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 t ...
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 her ...
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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Sarraounia- The Panther Queen
In the 1890 a French colonial operation was planned whose mission it was to force the submission of an empire along the bend of the river Niger. Lieutenant Voulet and Captain Chanoine were the colonial officers in cha ...
Posted Monday, April 16th 2018 at 10:41AM
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John Charles Robinson (November 26, 1903 – March 26, 1954) was an American aviator and activist who was hailed as the "Brown Condor" for his service in serving in the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force against Fascist Italy. Robinson pushed for equal oppor ...
Posted Monday, April 16th 2018 at 10:37AM
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Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American citizen and married businessman with a family in Liberty, Mississippi. He was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era. He tried to register to vote. In addition, ...
Posted Monday, April 16th 2018 at 10:25AM
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TRUTHSTORIAN presents a brief introduction to the Ancient Nok Culture (1000 BC-300 AD) of West Africa. This great civilization was one of the earliest in West Africa. The Nok were masters of iron working and creators of high art.
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Posted Sunday, April 15th 2018 at 6:48PM
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Posted Friday, April 13th 2018 at 3:35PM
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Parkland student activist Aalayah Eastmond is partnering with gun control advocacy group Youth Over Guns on a June 2, 2018 march in New York City to bring awareness to gun violence in urban areas.
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Posted Thursday, April 12th 2018 at 9:45PM
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NBK presents the history of Tap Dancing. Tap Dancing is deeply rooted in African American artistic culture and expression. From Master Juba to Savion Glover Tapping is an American National treasure.
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