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FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO WIN A PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES  Jacqueline Yvonne Harry (born August 14, 1956) is an American actress, comedian, and television personality. She is known for her starring roles as Sandra Clark, the nemesis of Mary Jenkins (played by Marla Gibbs), on the NBC TV seriesContinue reading “Black History Highlights”

THE QUEEN OF RAP  The First Hip-Hop Artist to Receive a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and producer. Owens was born in Newark, New Jersey. She attended Essex Catholic Girls’ High School in Irvington,Continue reading “Black History Highlights”

-TRACEE ELLIS ROSS “THE BOSS” LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER Tracee Joy Silberstein (born October 29, 1972), known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress, singer, television host, producer and director. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–present). Ross owns Pattern Beauty, a hair-care line forContinue reading “Black History Highlights”

BLACK BASEBALL IN MINNESOTA: THE PIPESTONE BLACK SOX In the following article historian Bruce A. Glasrud follows the exploits of an all black baseball team in the southwestern Minnesota town of Pipestone in the 1920s which at the time had virtually no black residents. Nonetheless the team competed with other white, all-black, and racially integratedContinue reading “Black History Highlights”

Clerow “Flip” Wilson Jr. Clerow “Flip” Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring characterContinue reading “Black History Highlights”

JULIAN BOND (1940-2015) Horace Julian Bond was a scholar, poet, former legislator, and activist in the American Civil Rights Movement.  Julian Bond, as he came to be known, was born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee to Julia Washington Bond and Horace Mann Bond, an educator who served as the first African American presidentContinue reading “Black History Highlights”