Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 16 Ms. Betty Carter, Lillie Mae Jones, was born in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit, where her father led… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 17 John William “Blind” Boone, pianist and ragtime music composer, was born near Miami, Missouri. When he was six months old,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 18 Mary Fields (c. 1832–1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American woman star route mail… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 19 The Last Poets are several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement’s… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 20 David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York,… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 21 Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller, jazz pianist, organist, and composer, was born in New York City. Waller started playing the piano… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 22 Bernard Shaw is a retired American journalist and former lead news anchor for CNN from 1980 until his retirement in… Read More
Fact A Day June 24, 2017 0 May 23 Samuel Sharpe was born into slavery in the parish of St James, Jamaica on a plantation owned by Samuel and… Read More
