MC Lyte born, Lana Michelle Moorer is an American rapper, disc jockey, radio personality, entrepreneur, and actress. Considered one of the pioneers of female rap.
On June 17, 2015, an anti-black mass shooting occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed and a tenth was injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney.
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks made one of the greatest medical contributions after her cells were taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy. “HeLa” cells became the first immortal human cell line to reproduce infinitely in a lab. Her cells are so unique it has been used as artwork in museums.
Simone Biles is the most decorated American gymnast, with more than two dozen Olympic and World Championship medals to her name. She is now the most decorated female gymnast in history with 33 medals from international competitions, including the Olympics. Three days earlier, Biles landed a highly challenging vault that…
Bethann Hardison - former model, advocate, and founder of the modeling and management agency that bears her name - has long been a groundbreaker in the world of fashion. She has helped guide the careers of some of the most prominent models in recent times and through her decades of…
Lonnie G. Johnson is a former Air Force and NASA engineer who invented the #1 top-selling water toy of all time. The Super Soaker!
Mark Dean helped shape modern computing. He was chief engineer on the team that designed the original IBM PC in the early 1980s. He helped develop technologies, including the color PC monitor and the first gigahertz chip. With a colleague, he developed a system that allowed devices such as printers…
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, a revamped sewing machine and an improved traffic signal.
George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) was an African-American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Scientist George Carruthers built his first telescope at the age of 10. He earned his Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the University of Illinois in 1964 and began working…
James Brown was born to lose. He refused to accept that fate. By the time he was in his 30s, James Brown was more than a dominant musical voice: he was an outstanding African-American personality, period. Important enough to be drawn into the murky waters of national politics as an…
On the evening of June 17, 2015, a mass shooter took the lives of nine African American people at a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The massacre at a historic Black church deeply shook a nation already jaded by frequent gun violence and…
Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement,…
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) was a poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His first poem was published in 1921 in The Crisis and he published his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. Hughes’s influential work focused on a racial consciousness…
A novelist and essayist of considerable renown, James Baldwin bore witness to the unhappy consequences of American racial strife. Baldwin’s writing career began in the last years of legislated segregation; his fame as a social observer grew in tandem with the civil rights movement as he mirrored Black people’s aspirations,…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the…
College Achieve Public Schools (Elementary)-Paterson, NJ, 5th Grade Science Teacher Mr. Green broadcasts the Morning Announcements as Radio Station DJ, “Mr.Green~The Information Machine.” This broadcast was present Friday Morning October 27th, 2023.
College Achieve Public School (C.A.P.S.) ELEMENTARY of Paterson, NJ debuts its Online Radio Station WCAP-FM, "CAPS Radio" an extension of its Morning Announcements. %th Grade Science Teacher Mr. Green DJ's the music with some selections requested by the Teachers of CAPS Elementary.
Alumni, Students, and Faculty, will come together and learn more about the FSU Networking Program for the Fall of 2023. All are encouraged to register and be prepared to meet and greet and Network with the SU Nation and Family.
A Brief look at the Accomplishments of Mark Dean.
A brief look at the accomplishments of National Television Anchor Deborah Roberts.
Photos with music about Television Reporter/Author Deborah Roberts for Black History 365 Past and Present Project.
Ben Green aka BEN G!~Mr.RNB! and Mr.Green invites you to become a Sponsor, supporter, Special Guest(Virtual/In-Person) of his 5th Grade Science Class @ CAPS Elementary in Paterson,NJ. Email Mr.Green for more info: MrBIGreen3@gmail.com
