30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof's "Race Against Time
30 million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldofs Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
May
25
1986
Harry Belafonte born
Singer/Actor Harry Belafonte is born in New York.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Mar
1
1927
Sojourner Truth's Famous Speech
Sojourner Truth delivers her infamous Aint I A Woman? speech to the Ohio Womens Rights Convention.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
May
29
1851
Slavery
Twenty Africans, three of them women, arrive in Jamestown, VA on a Dutch ship and are sold as indentured servants; indentured servitude acts asa forerunner to slavery in English colonies.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jan
0
1619
(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
Read more
Source: Black Past
Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland was born.
Singer Bobby Blue Bland is born in Rosemark, Tennessee.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by NSBE Boston
Jan
0
1930
Country singer Charlie Pride born
Country and western singer Charlie Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Intellitech
Mar
18
1938
Patricia Bath
Born: 11/4/1942 Manhattan, New YorkAmerican ophthalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed a post-graduate training program in
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Paul Robeson, actor, singer, athelete and activist, Paul Robeson, dies
Paul Robeson, actor, singer, athelete and activist, Paul Robeson, dies
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by NSBE Boston
Jan
23
1976
Jazz singer Nancy Wilson born
Jazz singer, actress, Nancy Wilson born in Chillicothe, Ohio
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Feb
20
1936
National Council of Negro Women
Dorothy Height, YMCA official, elected president of the National Council of Negro Women.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Prospanica Boston Professional Chapter
Nov
27
1957
Lisa Leslie, basketball star born
Lisa Leslie
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jul
7
1972
Singer Dinah Washington dies in Detriot.
Singer Dinah Washington dies in Detriot.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Dec
14
1963
Paul Bustill Robeson
Paul Bustill Robeson was born in
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Apr
9
1898
Anti-Amalgamation Law
Maryland enacted first anti-amalgamation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women and Black men. Other colonies passed similar laws: Virginia, 1691; Massachusetts 1705; North Carolina, 1715; South Carolina, 1717; Delaware, 1721; Pennsylvania, 1725.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by APEX Museum
Sep
20
1664
Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Pianist is born
Mary Lou Williams was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs on May 8, 1910.In a remarkably productive career that spanned a half century, Mary Lou Williams established herself as a pianist, composer and arranger, an unprecedented feat that has remained an inspiration to women in jazz. While she is widely
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
May
8
1910
Marcus Garvey
On July 14, 1914 Marcus Garvey arrived in Jamaica after a long tour which had taken him through Central America and Europe. Five days later on July 19 he launched the largest independent organisation the world has ever seen - the Universal Negro Improvement Association , UNIA, intended to be the
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jul
14
1914
Singer, Ben Vereen, born, 1946
Singer, Ben Vereen, born, 1946
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts
Oct
10
1946
Buddy Guy is born.
Influential blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy is born in Lettsworth, LA, USA. His most poular records include First Time I Met The Blues and Stone Crazy.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Jul
30
1936
Singer Rufus Thomas dies
R&B singer Rufus Thomas known for songs such as Do the Funky Chicken and Walking the Dog died. He was 84.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Illinois Math and Science Academy
Dec
15
2001
Leontyne Price awarded in Italy
Leontyne Price, opera singer, is awarded The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Apr
12
1975
Soul singer Otis Redding posthumously receives a dold record for the single "The
Soul singer Otis Redding posthumously receives a dold record for the single The Dock of the Bay. Redding was killed in a plane crash three months ago.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Christo Rey New York High School
Mar
11
1968
Billy Eckstine dies
Singer Billy Eckstine died in Pittsburgh at age 78
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Mar
8
1993
Joyce Banda
Born: 4/12/1950 Malemia, ZombaHer Excellency Dr Joyce Hilda Banda is a Malawian politician who was the President of Malawi from 7 April 2012 to 31 May 2014. She is the founder and leader of the Peoples Party, created in 2011Business / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor win American Book Awa
Two African American women, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor win American Book Awards for fiction
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Intellitech
Apr
28
1983
Spingarn Medal: Mary B.Talbert
Spingarn Medal awarded to Mary B. Talbert, former president of the National Association of Colored Women, for service to Black women and for restoration of the Frederick Douglas home.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Nov
20
1922
The Bethune Museum & Archives, a depository and center for AfricanAmerican wom
The Bethune Museum & Archives, a depository and center for African American womens history, is established in Washington, DC
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
Nov
11
1979
Ella Fitzgerald Born
Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. The man said, do something while youre out there, the singer
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Apr
25
1918
Singer Gladys Knight born
Singer Gladys Knight was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Sponsored by National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Boston Metropolitan Chapter
May
28
1944
Death of Florence Mills, dancer and singer,
Death of Florence Mills (32), dancer and singer, New York City.
Read more
Source: Blackfacts.com
Nov
1
1927

Democratic Party Facts

Education Facts

American Civil War Facts

African American Facts

New York City Facts

Cuisine Facts

Eminem lambasts Donald Trump in freestyle rap