By Blackthen M. A. Cherry was a African American Inventor who created several devices for the transportation industry, including the velocipede, the tricycle and the…
Posts published in November 2015
By storyteller BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum announces the discovery of a previously unknown photograph of Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), the first 19th-century African…
By storyteller William (Will, Bill) Pickett was a legendary cowboy from Taylor, Texas of black and Indian descent. He was born December 5, 1870, at…
By storyteller Aretha Franklin is the “Queen of Soul” and the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She is a…
By Danielle Young, Lifestyle Editor Kenneth Chancey is a 23-year-old college graduate who was once homeless on Skid Row. Chancey graduated from Loyola Marymount University…