Radio One held a Black History Month Reception to recognize its first annual Living History honoree Pennsylvania congressman Chaka Fattah. The congressman was honored by Radio One founder/chairperson Cathy Hughes and president/CEO Alfred Liggins at the Radio One corporate headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Judge Greg Mathis of the Juedge Mathis television show also gave remarks. Click here to see more of the […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born October 5, 1958 in Manhattan and was raised in the Bronx. Tyson attended the Bronx High School of Science where he was captain of the wrestling team and editor-in-chief of the school’s Physical Science Journal. He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the […]
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. At age three Chisholm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother where she attended the Vauxhall Primary School. She did not return to New York until roughly seven years later. Chisholm graduated from the Girls’ High School, […]
Mass Mutual and NewsOne join together to present 28 dynamic people that make up the diverse tapestry of Black History. For the entire month of…
It’s an unprecedented mass ceremony at the White House that will correct decades of racial prejudice. President Barack Obama, perhaps pondering his legacy as America’s…
Forest Steven Whitaker was born July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas. He was awarded The NAACP Chairman’s Award at the 45th NAACP Image Awards this past Saturday. His acceptance speech can be seen here. http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/45th-naacp-image-awards/video/image-awards–forest-whitaker-s-amazing-speech.html. Whitaker moved to Carson, California when he was four. He attended Cal Poly Pomona on a football scholarship, but due to a […]
Located in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, The Wilfandel House was built in the 1940’s as a society club for affluent blacks. The…
Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, basketball legend was born in Roosevelt, NY, on this date in 1950. During Erving’s illustrious career in the ABA and NBA he revolutionized the game with his high-flying antics, the “finger-roll,” and the “slam dunk.” Happy 64 “Dr. J.”
McKinley Jones was born in Covington, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 17, 1893. He served in France in World War I. After he returned home he worked as a garage mechanic, and with this experience, he developed a self-starting gasoline motor. His mastery of electronic devices was largely self-taught, through work experience and the […]
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born in 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut. At that time there were only three schools in New Haven open to Black children. Bouchet was enrolled in the Artisan Street Colored School which had only one teacherand she nurtured Bouchet's academic abilities. He attended the New Haven High Schoolfrom 1866 to 1868 […]
