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Because of recent events that are bringing greater attention to issues that impact African Americans, Black Like Me is highlighting past episodes that are relevant to the current national conversation. Currently, the debate around Black American history and Critical Race Theory is heating up, so we are returning to an episode that discusses teaching Black history. Dr. Alex Gee talks with Professor Steve Kantrowitz and Professor Alexander Shashko about their experience teaching Black History. Professor Kantrowitz co-created Justified Anger's Black History for a New Day course with Dr. Gee, and Professor Shashko lecturers for the course.  Learn more about how you can be part of Justified Anger's Virtual Black History for A New Day Course. Alexander's Tedx Talk  Professor Steve Kantrowitz's Books: All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic. Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.  Professor Alexander Shashko's book suggestions:  https://www.press.umich.edu/179458/change_is_gonna_come https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312425791 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/movinglr/longcivilrights.pdf

On March 31, Toni Morrison wins the Pulitzer. She was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. In the late 1960s, Morrison became the first Black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City. She became noted for her examination of the Black experience within the Black community. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for "Beloved"; she gained worldwide recognition when she was awardedthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to win this award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 30, The 15th Amendment was ratified and gave blacks the right to vote. In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions who had been enslaved. After surviving a difficult ratification fight, the amendment was certified as duly ratified and part of the Constitution. Women would not receive that right until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Wilma Rudolph was an American sprinter, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international icon in track and field. Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg) on June 23, 1940, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She was able to overcome several early childhood illnesses, including pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio. She enrolled at Tennessee State University in Nashville in 1958.  She won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. She also won three gold medals, at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.  Rudolph was known as the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 29 is the birthday of Pearl Bailey. She was an American entertainer notable for her sultry singing and mischievous humor. A nightclub performer, Bailey shared the stage with entertainers such as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington.Bailey also had a television career and even hosted her own show, “The Pearl Bailey Show.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.Nash was born in 1938 and raised in Chicago. After finishing Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Diane Nash went to Washington, D.C., to attend Howard University. She then went on to major in English at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Nash's campaigns included the first successful civil rights action to integrate lunch counters in Nashville.She is co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 28, Bill Russell became the first African American to coach an NBA team. During his career, Russell supported the American civil rights movement, and spoke out against the Vietnam War.  He won 11 NBA titles in the 13 seasons that he played with the Boston Celtics, and then he was named the player-coach of the Celtics in 1966. In 2011, Barack Obama awarded Russell the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments on the court and in the Civil Rights Movement.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Marsha P. Johnson was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. She was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. She was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.).On the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall uprising occurred. The clashes with police would result in a series of spontaneous demonstrations for a week afterwards.  On the first year anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, on June 28, 1970, Johnson marched in the first Gay Pride rally. Shortly after the 1992 pride parade, Johnson's body was discovered floating in the Hudson River. Police initially ruled the death a suicide but today it is seen as a probable murder.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 27, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters was founded. Founded in Boston, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters works to promote, cultivate, and preserve the work of African, African-American, and Caribbean artists in the fields of literature, fine arts, performing arts, visual arts, and cinema. The organization grew out of the American Negro Academy (ANA), which was established in 1897 to publish scholarly works, foster higher education, and promote literature, science, and art by and among African Americans. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Odetta Holmes was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".Odetta was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 31, 1930. As an important figure in the American folk music of the 50s and 60s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.Time magazine included her recording of "Take This Hammer" on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 26, William H. Hastie became the first Black federal judge.After graduating with a degree in mathematics from Amherst College in 1925, Hastie taught at the Bordentown Manual School before going on to Harvard University to receive a law degree in 1930.He began his federal career as a solicitor for the Department of the Interior in 1933. Upon the recommendation of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes,Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hastie to the U.S. District Court in the Virgin Islands.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Marian Anderson was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson was born in Philadelphia on February 27, 1897. On January 7, 1955, Anderson became the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. During her life, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 25 is the Birthday of Aretha Franklin.As a young teen, Franklin performed with her father on his gospel programs in major cities throughout the country and was recognized as a vocal prodigy. She moved to New York City, where Columbia Records executive John Hammond arranged her recording contract.Her first recording session where she sang “Today I Sing the Blues” (1960) remains a classic.As the nation turned towards civil rights, and Black urban music grew in popularity, Franklin was crowned the “Queen of Soul." “Respect,” her 1967 cover of Otis Redding's spirited composition, became an anthem.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Mahalia Jackson, born Mahala Jackson, was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. As a child, Mahalia found a home in her church, where Mahalia delivered God's word through song. She moved to Chicago as an adolescent and joined the Johnson Singers, one of the earliest gospel groups. Jackson was heavily influenced by blues singer Bessie Smith. Nationwide recognition came for Jackson in 1947 with the release of "Move On Up a Little Higher," selling two million copies and hitting the number two spot on Billboard charts. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Halle Berry became the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.Film roles in "Jungle Fever" (1991), directed by Spike Lee, and in "Boomerang" (1992), directed by Reginald Hudlin, first brought her notice.She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in "Monster's Ball"(2001), becoming the first African-American woman to win the award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 23, Patricia Roberts Harris passed away.She was the first African American woman named to a U.S. ambassadorship and the first as well to serve in a presidential cabinet.In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed her co-chairman of the National Women's Committee for Civil Rights. She worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign. Soon after his victory, President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1965 to 1967.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice, born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, is an American diplomat, political scientist, civil servant, and professor who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  In President Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Secretary of State. She was the second female secretary of state, after Madeleine Albright.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

March 22 is the Birthday of George BensonIn the late 1960s he sat in on Miles Davis' "Miles in the Sky sessions," and also put a personal spin on the tunes from the Beatles' "Abbey Road."Benson has won ten Grammy Awards and often plays the dual role of expert improviser and vibrant entertainer. Rounding out his singular approach with a strong sense of swing, he is considered one of the greatest guitarists in jazz.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African-American state senator since 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that legislative body. President Bill Clinton said that he had wanted to nominate Jordan for the United States Supreme Court, but Jordan's health problems prevented him from nominating her.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

On March 21, James Baskett becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.He was an American actor and singer, known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in the 1946 Disney animated feature film "Song of the South."  Baskett became the first live actor to be hired by Walt Disney.In recognition of his portrayal of the famous black storyteller, Baskett was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first black male performer to receive an Oscar.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theatre.In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942).  She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, student non-violent coordinating committee and the National Council of Negro Women.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

March 20 is the Birthday of Rosetta Tharpe.She was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist who attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture that was a precursor of rock and roll.At the age of 23, Tharpe recorded for the first time. Her songs caused an immediate furor: many churchgoers were shocked by the mixture of gospel-based lyrics and secular-sounding music, but secular audiences loved them.She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians, including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native-American to hold a pilot license. She was born on January 26, 1892, the tenth of thirteen children of George Coleman, whose grandparents were Cherokee, and Susan Coleman, who was African-American.At the age of 23, Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois and took a couple of jobs at the same time, to save money in hopes of becoming a pilot. On November 20, 1920, she traveled to Paris and could earn her pilot license. In 1926 Bessie Coleman's dream of opening a Flying School was finally within reach, and she was finally able to buy her own plane. Then, tragedy struck. On April 30, 1926, while preparing for an upcoming show in Jacksonville, she was killed in a flying mishap. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 19, Jan E. Matzeliger patented his revolutionary shoe machine.Matzeliger began work as a sailor on a merchant ship at the age of 19 and after about six years settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He found employment in a shoe factory and became interested in the possibilities of lasting shoes by machine.Matzeliger obtained a patent for his invention of an automated shoe laster in 1883, which not only revolutionized the shoe industry but made Lynn, Massachusetts, the "shoe capital of the world."BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Florynce Rae Kennedy was an American lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and activist.Kennedy remembered a time in her childhood when her father had to be armed with a shotgun in order to ward off the neighborhood Ku Klux Klan.After getting her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1951, Kennedy opened her own office, doing matrimonial work, and some assigned criminal cases.She dedicated life to her law career and defending civil rights on “a pathologically, institutionally racist, sexist and classist society.” BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 18 is the Birthday of Vanessa Williams.She initially gained recognition as the first woman of African-American descent to receive the Miss America title in 1983.In addition to singing and performing, Williams has had a successful career in films and television. For her role in the romantic comedy Soul Food (1997), Williams earned an NAACP Image Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Audrey Geraldine Lorde was a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior and poet."  Lorde was born in New York City on February 18, 1934. She attended Hunter College, and graduated in the class of 1959. In 1961, she furthered her education at Columbia University, earning a master's degree in library science. In 1980, together with Barbara Smith and Cherríe Moraga, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color.  From 1991 until her death, she was the New York State Poet Laureate. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 17, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to earn an International Grandmaster chess title. Ashley was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica, and then moved to the United States when he was 12. He soon took up chess and excelled at the game, becoming a national master in 1986 and an International Master in 1993.From 1991 to 1997 Ashley was the chess director of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc., where he led teams to three scholastic national championships.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Phillis Wheatley Peters, whose name was also spelled Phyllis Wheatly, was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.Born in West Africa in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was enslaved by the Wheatley family of Boston.The family afforded Phillis an education strongly influenced by the books of Milton, Homer, Horace, and Virgil. With the publication of Wheatley's book, Poems on Various Subjects, she "became the most famous African on the face of the earth.” BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 16 is the Birthday of Rebecca Cole. In 1867, Rebecca J. Cole became the second African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended the Institute for Colored Youth, graduating in 1863.  Cole practiced medicine for fifty years, unfortunately, only a few records and photos of her have survived.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 15 is the Birthday of writer Ben Okri.He is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth.His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991, making him the youngest ever winner of the prize at the age of 32.His first-hand experiences of civil war in Nigeria are said to have inspired many of his works. He has been compared favorably to authors such as Salmon Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Dorothy Irene Height was an American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African American women, including, illiteracy and voter awareness.Height earned an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in educational psychology at New York University. She pursued further postgraduate work at Columbia University.  She became President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) in 1958 and remained in that position until 1990. Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1994.  BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 14, Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.The youngest of 20 children, Fannie Lou was working the fields with her sharecropper parents at the age of six. Amid poverty and racial exploitation, she received only a sixth-grade education.Her civil rights activism began in August 1962, when she answered a call by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for volunteers to challenge voter registration procedures that excluded African Americans.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Claudette Colvin is a retired American nurse aide who, on March 2, 1955, was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement."Clark graduated from high school in 1916. She was able to return to school in Columbia to complete her B.A. at Benedict in 1942 and then she received her M.A. from Hampton. In 1956, she became Vice President of the Charleston NAACP branch. Clark claimed that women being treated unequally was “one of the greatest weaknesses of the civil rights movement." BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 13 is when the first Black Daily Newspaper was published.Founded by William A. Scott III in August 1928 as semi-weekly publication, the Atlanta Daily World would become the first successful African-American daily newspaper in the United States. On March 13, 1932, the Atlanta Daily World newspaper began running as a daily publication and was the first paper to send an assigned correspondent to the White House. Reporter Harry S. Alpin became the first person of African American descent to cover the White House on February 8, 1944.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join. Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Mary Church Terrell was one of the first Black-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.Terrell majored in Classics at Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to accept African- American and female students. She began her career in education in 1885, teaching modern languages.  In 1892, Terrell along with some other prominent women, formed the Colored Women's League in Washington, D.C. Terrell's, autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, accounts her personal experiences with racism. She died at the age of 90, on July 24, 1954 in Highland Beach, Maryland.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 12 is the Birthday of Andrew Young. Young graduated from Howard University in 1951 and earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut in 1955.  A pastor at several black churches in the South, Young was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Young was the first African American to hold the position.  As mayor of Atlanta, elected in 1981, Young brought in $70 billion of new private investment.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born into slavery at the Bolling Farm near Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. She was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War and went on to become one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This American investigative journalist and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper became one of the most famous Black women in the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

March 11 is the Birthday of Edward R. Dudley. In 1949, Edward R. Dudley was the first African American to hold the rank of ambassador. His legacy also includes a long history of civil rights activism and a distinguished career as an attorney.Dudley was a civil rights lawyer in the 1940s, appointed to the New York Attorney General's Office.  He was then recruited by Thurgood Marshall to become a Special Assistant at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1948, President Harry Truman sent Dudley to Liberia as a U.S. Envoy and Minister. Upon elevation of the Mission in Liberia to a full U.S. Embassy in 1949, Dudley was promoted to the rank of Ambassador. After departing Liberia in 1953 he continued to practice law and was later elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1965, serving on the high court until 1985.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States.On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 10, Timothy Zachary Mosley was born--aka Timbaland. The rapper-producer began to learn how to use studio equipment under the direction of producer and musician DeVante Swing at the age of 19.Timbaland received three Grammy Awards for his work with Justin Timberlake. He also earned a Grammy for his contributions to Beyoncé's “Drunk in Love.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. She was six weeks old when her family moved to Chicago, and from then on, it remained her home.She published her first poem, "Eventide," in the magazine “American Childhood” when she was 13 years old. By the age of 16, she had already written and published approximately 75 poems.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 9, Walter Francis White was named National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive secretary. He retained the role for almost a quarter of a century.White waged a long and ultimately successful campaign against the lynching of blacks by white mobs in the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Born to parents who were sharecroppers, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. She's the author of the multi-award winning book “The Color Purple.”  She published “The Color Purple” in 1982 and received in 1983 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

On March 8, Marjorie Edwina Pitter King was born.In 1944 she established a successful tax business called M and M Tax and Consultant Services. King was extremely active in politics, and was appointed to the State Legislature in 1965, becoming the first African American in the legislative body.She operated her tax business for nearly 50 years.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Alice Coachman Davis was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.She attended Tuskegee Preparatory and Albany State College, and went from cleaning sports facilities to becoming a teacher and track-and-field instructor, to dominating in the high jump to become an Olympic gold medalist.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

The single We Are the World is the eight best-selling physical single of all time. With more than 20 million copies sold, the song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie raised money for African famine relief. The recording brought together the most popular artists of its time, such as Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, and Ray Charles amongst many others.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!Music: UmlungoCourtesy of Pixlord

As a high-school senior in San Antonio, Texas, Shaquille O'Neal attracted the attention of college recruiters when his team won the state championship. O'Neal attended Louisiana State University. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star Game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000).BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American educator Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. Born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been enslaved, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa.  She went on to have a career as an educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist and civil rights activist. Bethune is the founder of the National Council for Negro Women, as well as the first Black Hospital in Daytona, Florida.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American jazz singer Sarah Lois Vaughan. She was nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One” and won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.Born in Newark, NJ, Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing on 52nd Street in New York City at the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat, and the Onyx Club.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

On March 5, The American Negro Academy was founded by Alexander Crummell. It was the first organization in the United States to support African-American academic scholarship and operated from 1897 to 1928. Some of the most highly educated and socially prominent African Americans and other students of African descent attended.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!Music: UmlungoCourtesy of Pixlord

On March 4, Ida Gray, the first African-American woman to become a dentist in the U.S.A., was born. Gray had a 40-year career as a dentist and became the first Black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Isabella "Belle" Baumfree was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.In May 1851, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as "Ain't I a Woman?”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Thomas L. Jennings was the first Black man to receive a patent. The patent, awarded March 3, 1821, was for his discovery of a process called dry-scouring which was the forerunner of today's modern dry-cleaning. Jennings was a tailor and passionate abolitionist who opened a dry cleaning business in New York City. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, an American activist during the civil rights movement, but is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. On Thursday, December 1, 1955 she was arrested after refusing to move to the colored section of the bus.The United States Congress has called Ms. Parks “The First Lady of Civil Rights.”BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter! 

Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song. Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, and made her most important debut at age 17 on November 21, 1934, in one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater.Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammy Awards, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce the history of Howard University. This HBCU was founded with a special obligation to provide advanced studies for Blacks. Prominent alums include Ralph Bunche, Toni Morrison, and Kamala Harris, current vice president of the United States.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce writer Ralph Ellison, born on March 1. The American novelist is best known for his novel Invisible Man, 1953 fiction winner of the National Book Award.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join.Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

Billie Holiday is today's featured episode as BlackFacts.com presents Significant Women in Black History—a special daily showcase for Women's History Month.Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia. She was an American jazz and swing music singer whose 26-year career saw her rise to the top of the charts.In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. A month after she was hired by Artie Shaw. She's among the first Black women to work with a white orchestra.At age 44, “Lady Day" died in New York City. The Billie Holiday Monument is located at Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Our podcast summarizes the vast stories of Black history in daily episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™.Since 1997, BlackFacts.com has been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Learn Black History. Teach Black History.For more Black Facts, join Black Facts Nation at BlackFacts.com/join. Because Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!

In this episode we introduce our BlackFacts.com podcast.BlackFacts.com is the Internet's longest running Black History Encyclopedia. Since 1997, we have been serving up Black History Facts on a daily basis to millions of users and followers on the web and via social media.Now our daily podcast features the vast stories of Black history in bite-sized episodes known as Black Facts Of The Day™. Learn Black History. Teach Black History. https://blackfacts.comBecause Black History is 365 Days a Year, and Black Facts Matter!If you believe in our mission of keeping us in control of our stories - Join BlackFacts Nation!Music: SarcolineCourtesy of Chuck Fresh