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All Hail The New Princess of Independent Film: Quvenzhané Wallis
Chess Star On The Rise: 12 Year Old Diamond Shakoor Climbs The Ranks Of The Game | St. Louis Public Radio
Mensa Invites 4-year-old New Orleans Girl into Genius Society:  Anala Beevers scored above a 145 on intelligence tests, and placed in the top one percent of Mensans worldwide.  http://ow.ly/nFYqa

AA the Future

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Lincoln Institute of Jefferson, MO is America’s oldest historically black university in the United States. Founded in 1854, the University was originally founded as the Ashmun Institute. It was renamed to honor Abraham Lincoln in 1866 The school was funded by soldiers of the 62nd Colored Infantry with $5,000. Lincoln Institute officially opened its doors on September 17, 1866 under the leadership of first lieutenant Richard Baxter Foster.
Former child actress (Dee Thomas, What's Happening)  Dr. Danielle Spencer is a graduate of Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine and practices veterinary medicine in Beverly Hills, California. Tuskegee School of Medicine is the top producer of African American veterinarians in the United States.

AA: Education

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Julian Abele was a prominent black architect who built more than 400 buildings. Some of them were the Harvard University Widener Memorial Library, Monmouth University’s Shadow Lawn Mansion, the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Most importantly, Abele was known for building the Duke University Chapel.
Edith Spurlock Sampson (pictured on the right with Eleanor Roosevelt), became the first Black US Delegate appointed by Harry S. Truman in 1950.  A lifelong achiever, she was a lawyer, judge and first woman to receive her Masters Degree from Loyola University.
Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets | Video on TED.com

AFRIC AMER: History

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Singer Marvin Gaye and politician and civic servant Rev. Jesse Jackson play one-on-one basketball. 1976
Frank Willis - Shortly after 1 am on June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Complex, noticed tape covering the latch on several doors in the complex (allowing the doors to close but remain unlocked). He removed the tape, and thought nothing of it. He returned an hour later, and having discovered that someone had retaped the locks, Wills called the police. Five men were discovered and arrested inside the DNC's office  -- the start of the Watergate Scandal
Many made contributions in their local communities and lived simple lives. One man that rose above those difficulties was James Beckwourth. Born on April 6, 1798 as a slave to a slave owner and a mulatto slave, he later became a mountain man and contemporary of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, was kidnapped by the Crow nation and became a prominent Indian chief, and discovered a pass over the Rocky Mountains. Although Beckwourth is not as recognized as his contemporaries.

AFRIC AMER: History (2)

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Nina Yolande DuBois (1900 - 1960) daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and his first wife, Nina Gomer graduated from Fisk University with a degree in Fine Arts in 1924.
Artist Charles Alston founded the "306 Group", a club that provided support and apprenticeship for African-American artists during the 1940s. It served as a studio space for prominent African-American artists such as poet Langston Hughes; sculptor Augusta Savage; and mixed-media artist Romare Beardon
Detroit News Photographer Harold Robinson attends a Klan Meeting in Dearborn Michigan. Mr Robinson proves the Klu Klux Klan IS NOT Exclusive to the Southern States. A Detroit Free Lensman snapped this photo. It was printed in Jet Magazine February 25, 1970 #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #jetmagazine - @Greg Terrell- #webstagram

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Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King
Princeville, NC is the oldest town incorporated by African-Americans in the United States.
The Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, in which more than 300 African-American soldiers were killed, was one of the most controversial events of the American Civil War (1861-65). Though most of the Union garrison surrendered, and thus should have been taken as prisoners of war, the soldiers were killed. The Confederate refusal to treat these troops as traditional prisoners of war infuriated the North, and led to the Union's refusal to participate in prisoner exchanges.

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1865-1866. Black codes are passed by Southern states, drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves.

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Margaret Burroughs, artist, historian and founder of one of the oldest African-American history museums in the country
Ida B. Wells spent her life fighting the inequities of Jim Crow Laws.
“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African American carrier for the US Postal Service. Despite her age, she never missed a day of work in the ten years she carried the mail and earned the nickname “Stagecoach” for her reliability.

AFRIC AMER: History (8)

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Rufus Estes: Pullman Chef & Black Cookbook Author. And picky boss in the kitchen! www.cooksinfo.com...
Edna Lewis (b.1916 - d.2006) was an 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 in 1976, considered a classic study of Southern cooking. She co-founded the Society for the Revival and Preservation of Southern Food, a precursor to the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA). She died in Decatur, Georgia in 2006, aged 89.
Food Historian & Teacher Michael W.Twitty "I am currently engaged in a project I began in 2011 called The Cooking Gene Project—my goal to examine family and food history as the descendant of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans—enslaved people and enslavers—from Africa to America and from Slavery to Freedom."

AFRIC AMER: Food & Hospitality

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Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, 1940s
Billie Holiday by Van Vechten..Jackie Bassett
Billie Holiday

AFRIC AMER: Billie Holliday

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Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge, photographed by Walter Carone, 1955.
Dorothy Dandridge - Photography by Gordon Parks

AFRIC AMER: Dorothy Dandridge

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Zollie Lyons, 1939. Zollie was a sharecropper in Wake County, North Carolina.The family is resting in the "dog trot" an area between the main house and the kitchen, this was to help with keeping the heat out of the house since the wood stove or fire place needed to be lit at all times, and also with safety. Since the kitchen was where most fires started, if this was to happen, then the rest of the house would be safe from the flames.
Old African-American sharecroppers couple, Oklahoma, 1914.
The Warren family pose on their front porch in Fort Worth, Texas. L to R, top, William, a Pullman porter, his wife Carrie and children, Alma, Alton, Elnora. ca. 1930  Fort Worth, Texas  Shades of L.A.: African American Community. Shortly after the Civil War, the Pullman Company hired African-American men to staff its Pullman sleeping cars. These men became known and widely respected as Pullman porters.

AFRIC AMER: One Moment in Time

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John Steptoe (1950-1989), one of the first prolific authors to write & illustrate books specifically for black children, created urban landscapes in words and pictures. In his twenty-year career, he illustrated 16 books, ten of which he also wrote. Two books were named Caldecott Honor Books and two won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration.

AFRIC AMER: Literature

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Lena Horne
Maude Callen on duty. In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. In W. Eugene Smith’s pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen working in the rural South in the 1950s. She served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.
"I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live". - Dr. Mildred Jefferson (1926-2010) The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School

AFRIC AMER: Medical

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Luther Vandross
Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn Monroe.    “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt …. she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night .... The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” - Ella Fitzgerald
Marvin Gaye

AFRIC AMER: Music

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A very young James Earl Jones
April 12, 1975: Josephine Baker dies. LIFE.com brings back a series of photographs from 1951 by Alfred Eisenstaedt that capture something of the woman’s energy, charisma and near-palpable joie de vivre. There will never be another … See more here: http://ti.me/HCZHVT (Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Shirley Temlpe

AFRIC AMER: Performing Arts

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Brigadier General Hazel W. Johnson-Brown. The first African American female General and the first Black Chief of the US Army Nursing Corps.
Carl Maxie Brashear (January 19, 1931 – July 25, 2006) was the 1st African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970. His life story is dramatized in the 2000 motion picture Men of Honor, in which he was portrayed by actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. Brashear enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Feb 25, 1948, shortly after the Navy had been desegregated by President Truman. He graduated from the U.S. Navy Diving & Salvage School 1954-1st African-American to attend & graduate.
The Golden Thirteen were the thirteen  African American enlisted men who became the first African American commissioned and warrant officers in the United States Navy. Throughout US history untill the end of WorldWar I, the Navy had enlisted African American for general service,they were barred from joining from 1919-1932.   In June 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order (8802) that prohibited racial discrimination by any government agency.

AFRIC AMER: Politics/Gov

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George Washington Carver overcame slavery to achieve fame as a scientist, botanist, and educator. Amazing!
In January 2006, Janet Emerson Bashen became the first African-American female to hold a patent for a software invention
Jan Ernst Matzeliger invented a machine to make shoes that lasted in 1883. His invention was perhaps "the most important invention for New England." His invention was "the greatest forward step in the shoe industry," according to the church bulletin of The First Church of Christ (the same church that took him as a member) as part of a commemoration held in 1967 in his honor. Yet, because of the color of his skin, he was not mentioned in the history books until recently.

AFRIC AMER: Science/Inventors

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Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 lbs. , with 21 brothers and sisters, and caught infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) as a very young child. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot which had become twisted as a result.  Rudolph became the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960. She became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field.
Sugar Ray Leonard (born Ray Charles Leonard), retired professional boxer. He was the 1st boxer to earn $ 100M+ in purses, won world titles in 5 weight divisions, and defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Wilfred Benítez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán and Marvin Hagler. He was named "Boxer of the Decade" for the 1980s. He was named after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles; he got his nickname when someone said to his coach, "That kid you got is sweet as sugar."
Florence Griffith-Joyner

AFRIC AMER: Sports

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By Jacques Brédy.  This artist was born in 1991 (yes, he is only 21 years old) in Haiti and now lives in Miami.
Art of Wiley Kehinde
Born 2/29/1892, sculptor Augusta Savage fought poverty, racism and sexism to become a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her extraordinary talent opened many doors that led to her becoming one of the most influential black teachers of her time and a strong voice for civil rights

AFRIC AMER: Visual Arts

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By Jacques Brédy.  This artist was born in 1991 (yes, he is only 21 years old) in Haiti and now lives in Miami. Artists, Painting & Drawing, Animation, Art, Portrait Drawing, Drawing & Painting, Fine Art Drawing
By Jacques Brédy. This artist was born in 1991 (yes, he is only 21 years old) in Haiti and now lives in Miami.
Art of Wiley Kehinde Contemporary Art, York, Design, Artist, Black Artists, Fine Art, New Art
Art of Wiley Kehinde
Born 2/29/1892, sculptor Augusta Savage fought poverty, racism and sexism to become a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her extraordinary talent opened many doors that led to her becoming one of the most influential black teachers of her time and a strong voice for civil rights African American Artist, African American Art, American Artists, African, Black History Facts, American, Culture
Augusta Savage - Division of Arts and Culture - Florida Department of State
Born 2/29/1892, sculptor Augusta Savage fought poverty, racism and sexism to become a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her extraordinary talent opened many doors that led to her becoming one of the most influential black teachers of her time and a strong voice for civil rights
"Supper" by Nehemy Jean, Haitian artist Inspiration, Illustrators, People, Black Art, Street Art, American Art
Nehemy Jean Haitian master painting art of Haiti
"Supper" by Nehemy Jean, Haitian artist
Lil Sis, William H. Johnson, 1944 Outsider Art, William Johnson, William H Johnson, Johnson, Henry Johnson
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Lil Sis, William H. Johnson, 1944
Night Flight by Peggie Hartwell Quilts, Art Quilts, Hartwell, Quilters, Artsy, Artsy Fartsy
Night Flight by Peggie Hartwell
George Hunt Dancin' Blues Away Blues, George, Hunt, Prints
George Hunt Dancin' Blues Away
"Atieno Dreams of LaScala" by Robert 'Skip' Hill African Art, Gallery, Modern Art, Visual Art, Romare Bearden
"Atieno Dreams of LaScala" by Robert 'Skip' Hill
African Skies and Southern Soil by Peggie Hartwell <3 Quilting, Textile Art, African American Quilts, American Quilt, Quilted
African Skies and Southern Soil by Peggie Hartwell <3
African American Art by Doyle Cloyd Museums, Lady, Africa, African Paintings, Ethnic Art
Avery Research Center For African-American History and Culture – Carolina Arts News
African American Art by Doyle Cloyd
Selma Hortense Burke is one of the few African-American  women sculptors who achieved a high level of national recognition  during her lifetime. She received national recognition for her relief  portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt which was the model for his  image on the dime. She was committed to teaching art to others,  so she established the Selma Burke Art School in New York City  and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Vintage, Selma Burke, Selma, Female Artists, Visual Artist
Selma Hortense Burke is one of the few African-American women sculptors who achieved a high level of national recognition during her lifetime. She received national recognition for her relief portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt which was the model for his image on the dime. She was committed to teaching art to others, so she established the Selma Burke Art School in New York City and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
"Glad To Be Alone" by Delford Terry Paintings, Wilson Art, Wilson, Terry, Artwork
"Glad To Be Alone" by Delford Terry
"Satin Doll" quilt art by Michael A. Cummings History, Michael, Billie Holiday, Lafayette Club, Fort
Michael A. Cummings - Artist & Quilter - Art Quilts & Commissions
"Satin Doll" quilt art by Michael A. Cummings
Lena Horne Motivation, Sayings, Funny Quotes, Wise Words, Quotes To Live By, Words Of Wisdom, Words Worth, Good Advice, Inspirational Words
The Load - The Silver Pen
Lena Horne
"Out of the Box: Woman in Shirtdress" by Joyce Owens. "These are dramatic renditions of the black middle class men and women shown in photographs during the Paris Exposition in 1900 only 35 years after Emancipation from American slavery!  Although not a secret, this historic segment of the American population is not widely acknowledged. There is a depth to our African American ancestry that we need to be able to build on; the wooden box is a symbol that can both hold the truth and hide it." Addis Ababa, Marvel
Artmajeur ➼ Art Gallery #1 online for 20 years
"Out of the Box: Woman in Shirtdress" by Joyce Owens. "These are dramatic renditions of the black middle class men and women shown in photographs during the Paris Exposition in 1900 only 35 years after Emancipation from American slavery! Although not a secret, this historic segment of the American population is not widely acknowledged. There is a depth to our African American ancestry that we need to be able to build on; the wooden box is a symbol that can both hold the truth and hide it."
"From The Hill And Beyond" by Malik Seneferu Photo Art, Antique Art, Sculpture Art, America Art, Art World
From The Hill And Beyond by Malik Seneferu
"From The Hill And Beyond" by Malik Seneferu
"Bella" by LaShun Beal De Stijl, Graffiti, Original Artists
"Bella" by LaShun Beal
Google Image Result for http://www.aaregistry.org/aareg_files/event_images/JamesAPorter1.gif James, Event, Result, Image, Google Images, Google
Google Image Result for http://www.aaregistry.org/aareg_files/event_images/JamesAPorter1.gif
Tubman African American Museum African American Museum, America, Greats, Museum
Museum Collection
Tubman African American Museum
"Woman Peeling Apples" (1926) by Archibald Motley, Jr. Architecture
"Woman Peeling Apples" (1926) by Archibald Motley, Jr.
George Hunt Be A Man
ARTBYGOLDEN.COM
George Hunt
"Black Flower Queen" by Elie Lescot.  Mr. Lescot is actually Haitian but his work is so cool I want to promote it. Voodoo, Goddess, Afrocentric Art
Black Flower Queen by Elie Lescot
"Black Flower Queen" by Elie Lescot. Mr. Lescot is actually Haitian but his work is so cool I want to promote it.
Hand Works by Trish Williams Fibre Art, Folk Art, Patchwork, Fiber Art, Fabric Art
Hand Works by Trish Williams
Hand Works by Trish Williams
Archibald John Motley, Cocktails Leonardo Da Vinci, American Literature, Art Deco, Renaissance Art, Harlem
Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s
Archibald John Motley, Cocktails
The Home Going by Peggie Hartwell Crafts, Ideas, Modern Quilts
The Home Going by Peggie Hartwell
Savage, Famous Black Artists
Archibald Motley - Wikipedia
Anna Washington Derry by Laura Wheeler Waring / American Art Radford Fc, Radford, Smithsonian Institution, Portrait Inspiration
Anna Washington Derry
Anna Washington Derry by Laura Wheeler Waring / American Art
Pretty Eyes by Tom McKinney Lord, Inspirational Quotes, Strong Black Woman Quotes, Diva Quotes, Woman Quotes, African American Girl, Friend Loves
ARTBYGOLDEN.COM
Pretty Eyes by Tom McKinney