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107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 28th [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:03:54 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. On this day in black history in 1704, a Frenchman named Elias Neau opened school for enslaved African Americans in New York City. It was a catechizing/Christian teaching/religious school. jones_st_philip-s_episcopalian_church The congregation of St. Philip’s has roots that reach back to 1704. That [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 26th

Gina Cook — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:41:55 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. It was on this day in black history, February 26, 1869, that the Fifteenth Amendment passed. This was extremely important because it granted African American men the right to vote. The amendment states that the “right of citizens of the United States to [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 21st [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:18:59 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. On this sad day of February 21, 1965, Brother El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz best known to all of us as Malcolm X was assassinated. On this day in 1961 inventor, Otis Boykin patented the Electrical Resistor. U.S. 2,972,726 A electrical device used in all [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 20th [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:07:23 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. On this day in black history in 1895, Frederick Douglass died on this day at the age of 78. Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. By the time of the Civil War, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the country [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 19th [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:09:25 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. Pan-African Congress Meeting took place on this day in 1919. Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois. There were fifty-seven delegates, sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa from sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 18th [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:18:26 +0000

This Black History month we salute African American who made American history. It was on this in 1688, that the first formal protest against slavery took place. Organized by white Germantown, Pa. Quakers a petition was started the end slavery at monthly meeting. The historic “Germantown Protest” denounced slavery and the slave trade. The authors [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 8th

Gina Cook — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:47:45 +0000

This Black History month we salute African Americans who made American history. On this day in black history: February 8, 1990 Andy Rooney, a CBS “60 Minutes” commentator, received a 90-day suspension from work because of racist remarks about African Americans attributed to him by Chris Bull, a New York-based reporter for “The Advocate,” a [...]

Today In Black History – February 4th [VIDEO]

Gina Cook — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:30:02 +0000

This black history month we salute African Americans who’ve made American history. It was on this day that Roas Louise McCauley, better known as Rosa Parks was born. The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in honor of Sojourner Truth. Truth was born Isabella Baumfree and later changed her own name to Sojourner Truth. [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month- Today In History

Gina Cook — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:54:33 +0000

During this time of the year "Mardi Gras", the street sweeper is a God send. It would be one heck of a job if all the trash, bottle, beads, candy, food etc had to be manually swept or picked up. Instead of it taking a couple of hours, with the thousands of parade goers on the loose, it would take weeks.

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month- Today In History

Gina Cook — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:49 +0000

Have you had eye surgery before? Was it to correct cataract disease? If so, you were treated with another invention by an African American. Today, we salute Dr. Patricia Bath, the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Born in the NYC on November 4, 1942, Dr.Bath was the [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month- Today In History

Gina Cook — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:55:46 +0000

Today we salute a black inventor who was really ahead of his time. One of his inventions is used by billions of people every minute of the day. In fact, it would be absolute total chaos without it and driving would be near impossible. Today we salute Garrett Morgan the inventor or both the traffic [...]

107 Jamz Celebrates Black History- Today In History

Gina Cook — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:47 +0000

Today, we solute shoe making machine inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger. Jan was born in Paramaribo, a trading post started by the Dutch, the capital and largest city of Suriname. His father was a Dutch engineer and his mother a black Surinamese slave. When Jan was 19, he moved to Philadelphia working as a sailor. By [...]