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The Bolden band tune "Funky Butt", better known as "Buddy Bolden's Blues" since it was first recorded under that title by Jelly Roll Morton, alternatively titled "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Dr. John, on his 1992 album Goin' Back to New Orleans, and Hugh Laurie, on his 2011 album Let ...
Keith Lee, Sha’Carri Richardson, Latto and Angel Reese are among the Black stars featured on this year’s “30 Under 30” […] The post Meet the Black brilliance on Forbes’ 2024 ’30 ...
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African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. Among ...
The post The greatest Black people, ranked appeared first on TheGrio. ... there is a path for a Black person to become an admired and respected member of society. And if you examine the people who ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
Here are five early Black innovators whose contributions reshaped the agricultural landscape: Henry Blair (1807-1860) Only the second Black man to be awarded a U.S. patent (Thomas L. Jennings, who ...