February 18th

On this day,

Audre Geraldine Lorde, writer, poet, feminist, womanist, librarian, and activist, was born in 1934 in Harlem, New York. Chloe Anthony Wofford ‘Toni’ Morrison, novelist, editor, essayist, and professor, was born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

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February 17th

On this day,

James Nathaniel ‘Jim’ Brown was born in 1936 in St. Simons, Georgia. An actor, sports broadcaster, and analyst, after his football career, Jim Brown was named by The Sporting News as the ‘greatest professional football player ever’. 

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February 16th

On this day,

Tracy Lauren Marrow, aka Ice-T, was born on this day in 1958 in Newark, New Jersey.

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February 15th

On this day,

In 1965, a bomb exploded in the home of Malcolm X, a prominent figure during the civil rights movement, in New York City.

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February 14th

On this day,

Bishop Richard Allen, minister, educator, writer, builder, and pacesetter, was born in 1760 ‘near Dover, Delaware’.  He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States.

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February 13th

On this day,

The National Negro League, which was the African American Professional and semi Professional Baseball league, was organized by Rube Forster in 1920.

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February 12th

On this day,

For a President Lincoln Birthday activity in 1900, James Weldon Johnson wrote the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice” which came to be popularly known as the Black National Anthem.

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February 11th

On this day,

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is finally released from prison after twenty-seven years in prison in 1990. It was the beginning of the death of the apartheid system.  He became the first President of South Africa in May, 1994.

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February 10th

On this day,

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, writer, journalist, and the author of ROOTS: The Saga of an American Family, died in 1992 in Seattle, Washington.

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February 9th

On this day,

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist, was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. Her novel The Color Purple made her the first Black Woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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