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by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy first Monday of 2022! Hope this young year has been treating you well so far. Well, this collection i…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Dr. Saint Elmo Brady, the 1st African American Person to Earn a Chemistry Ph.D. in the U.S. (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is about Dr. Saint Elmo Brady, the first African American person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in…
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Eleven Years Ago Today: Good Black News Was Founded
GOOD BLACK NEWS proudly celebrates its eleventh anniversary today, March 18, 2021. GBN initially launched in 2010 as a Facebook page (read the story behind GBN’s creation here), and in 2012, we cre…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Learn About Sojourner Truth – Orator, Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Advocate (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Wednesday,  March 2  entry in the 'A Year of Good Black News' Page-A-Day®️ Calendar…
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“Dear Lori”: Who Cares About “Black Firsts” and Why Do They Even Matter?
Whelp, I feel like I need to start this post with a re-boot. When I first wrote 'Dear Lori' in September 2020, the idea was…
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MUSIC MONDAY: Tribute Playlist to Reggae Legend Bob Marley and What GBN Will Do about Spotify (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Hey, it's Lori, GBN's Editor-in-Chief, stepping in with this week's Music Monday share. As yesterday was what would have been…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Raven Wilkinson – the 1st Black Ballerina to Dance with a Major Company in the U.S. (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop Podcast is a bonus episode for Sunday, February 20, 2022 based on the  “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®&#…
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Welcome to Jazz Appreciation Month 2022 (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) No fooling, in the U.S. April 1st denotes the start of Jazz Appreciation Month (aka 'JAM'), where the art form…
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Born On This Day in 1973: Producer and Philanthropist Pharrell Williams (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) As Pharrell Williams takes his 49th orbit around the sun today, GBN celebrates the music and contributions to the culture and…
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Ida B. Wells – Journalist, Anti-Lynching Activist, Women’s Rights Advocate
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Ida B. Wells. Best known for being a late 19th/early 20th-century journalist, anti-lynching crusader and women’s rights advocate.…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Misty Copeland, 1st African American Principal Dancer in American Ballet Theatre History (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is about Misty Copeland, the first African American principal dancer in the elite American Ballet Theatre's 75-year history, based on…
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Celebrating Jazz Piano Virtuoso Oscar Peterson for #JazzAppreciationMonth (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) In continued celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth, today we drop in on virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson, who hailed from Canada, composed the…
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GBN’s Daily Drop (bonus): Celebrating Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rock and Roll Innovator Born On This Day in 1915 (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is a bonus episode about rock 'n' roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe who was born #OnThisDay in 1915,…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Learn About Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the 1st African American Graduate of West Point (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Thursday, February 24 entry in the 'A Year of Good Black News' Page-A-Day®️ Calendar…
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MUSIC MONDAY: “Black and Proud”: A Black History Month Playlist (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Hey, it's Lori, GBN's Editor-in-Chief, with this week's Music Monday share. Although it's one day early, I offer a list…
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Harriet Tubman Inducted into Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame; Back on Track to Grace the $20 Bill
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) On Veteran’s Day in 2018, I posted the following to the Good Black News Facebook Page with the photo above: This is Harriet Tubman in her later yea…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Quote from Contemporary Artist Betye Saar, 95, on Art, Beauty and Activism (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Saturday, March 5 entry in the 'A Year of Good Black News' Page-A-Day®️ Calendar…
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Barbara Jordan – Groundbreaking Congressmember, Lawyer, Professor and Orator
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Barbara Jordan was born in 1936 in Houston, Texas to a teacher mother and Baptist preacher father. Jordan grew up…
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BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Daisy Bates, Civil Rights Activist, Newspaper Publisher, Little Rock Nine Organizer
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Daisy Bates. President of the NAACP Arkansas chapter during the civil rights movement and co-publisher of The Arkansas…
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GBN GIVEAWAY: Enter by 11/23 For Chance to Win Free “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day® Calendar for 2023!
Good Black News, in collaboration with Workman Publishing, is getting into the holiday spirit once again — by giving away three copies of our 'A Year of…
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City College Center for the Arts in NY Celebrates Otis Williams and the Temptations’ 60th Anniversary with Live Virtual Conversation Event on Nov 1st
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) City College Center for the Arts, on the campus of City College of New York, is honoring the 60-year history of Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy®…
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Celebrating Vocalist Nancy Wilson for #JazzAppreciationMonth (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) In continued celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth, today we drop in on the underappreciated yet cherished and deeply talented song stylist Nancy…
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Celebrating Lorraine Hansberry, Award-Winning Playwright and Activist, Born on this Day in 1930
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Many may know Lorraine Hansberry as the award-winning playwright of the now-classic 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in The Sun, adapted into a 1961 movie sta…
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Quote from Journalist and Anti-Lynching Activist Ida B. Wells on Virtue and Respect (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today's GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Tuesday, March 8 entry in the 'A Year of Good Black News' Page-A-Day®️ Calendar…
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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Washington Commanders President Jason Wright, the 1st Black Person to Run an NFL Franchise (LISTEN)
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Learn About Mack Robinson, Olympic Silver Medalist, Community Activist and Jackie’s Older Brother (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) In yesterday’s daily drop we celebrated sports legend Jackie Robinson. But did you know his older brother Mack Robinson had…
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20th Century Global Superstar, Activist and Spy Josephine Baker’s Cheeky Quote on Getting Ahead From Behind (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We celebrate the iconic, internationally famous entertainer Josephine Baker in today's GBN Daily Drop podcast with some history along with her humorously clever…
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Black Oscar Firsts: A Brief History of the Trailblazing Academy Award Winners in Each Category (LISTEN)
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner – Inventor of the Sanitary Belt (LISTEN)
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GBN Daily Drop: Remembering Richard Pryor, the “Comedian’s Comedian” (LISTEN)
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