http://107jamz.com The People's Station Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:03:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://107jamz.com/107-jamz-celebrates-black-history-today-in-history/ http://107jamz.com/107-jamz-celebrates-black-history-today-in-history/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:47 +0000 Gina Cook http://107jamz.com/?p=37761 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.

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