*Prince Hall was born (circa) on this date in 1748. He was a preacher, administrator, mason and businessman. From Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Prince Hall was free born black. His father, Thomas Prince Hall, was a white Englishman and his mother a free black French woman. In 1765, at the age of 17, he worked […]
learn moreMississippi Civil Rights pioneer and administrator Hollis Watkins shares some views on what he enjoys about the African American community
learn moreOn this date in 1967, African American boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, the future three-time world champ changed his name to Muhammad […]
learn more*Katie McWatt was born on this date in 1931. She was an African-American Community Activist, Educator and administrator. From Minneapolis, Minnesota Kathleen Ann Curry was the daughter of an auto mechanic from a farm near Hastings, Minnesota. As a child she was the only African-American girl at her school and was subjected to racial slurs. In the […]
learn more*Ethel Ray Nance was born on this date in 1899. She was an African American writer, activist and administrator. Ethel Ray was born in Duluth, Minnesota. She was the youngest of four children born to William H. Ray, an African American from North Carolina and a Swedish mother. She was raised in Iowa by a German […]
learn more*Ijeoma Oluo was born on this date in 1980. She is an African American Writer, Information Literacy Ambassador and poet. From in Denton, Texas, her father, Samuel Lucky Onwuzip Oluo, is from Nigeria and black, and her mother is Susan Jane Hawley from Kansas and is white. Her younger brother is jazz musician Ahamefule J. Oluo. She was married to Chad R. Jacobson from […]
learn moreDr. Duchess Harris, author, professor, lawyer and activist talks about higher educations complicity and politics’ intersectionality with racism
learn more*Julia Bullard Nelson was born on this date in 1842. She was a white educator, Freedman Bureau teacher and activist for inclusive education and a woman right to vote. Born in High Ridge, Connecticut, Bullard moved to Minnesota with her family in 1857. She earned a teaching degree at Hamline University around 1862 and then […]
learn more*Dorothy Cotton was born on this date in 1930. She was an African American civil rights activist, who was a leader in the AmericanCivil Rights Movement. She was born Dorothy Foreman in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Her mother died when she was 3 years old, leaving her and her three sisters to be raised by their father, Claude Foreman, a tobacco […]
learn moreCity Council Member and LGBT Advocate Andrea Jenkins shares her views on equity and equality in society
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