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1 National Freedom Day Langston Hughes’s Birthday MLK Jr. Recites "Mother to Son" |
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3 Negro Baseball League created in 1920 WATCH: Jackie
Robinson: The First African American to Play in the MLB | Mini Bio | BIO |
4 Rosa Parks Birthday 1913-2005 WATCH: Larry
King Live - 1995: Rosa Parks says she isn't bitter |
5 Hank Aaron’s Birthday 1934-2021 WATCH: Tim
Kurkjian remembers the life of baseball legend Hank
Aaron | First Take |
6 “Almost
always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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7 “There is no
negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty
enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own
constitution…” -- Frederick Douglass |
8 Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple) Birthday “The most
common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” WATCH: Profile:
Alice Walker |
9 Bingo with Comedienne Angel Gaines |
10 The Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Reflect on America in the Wake of George Floyd's Murder- June 5, 2020 |
11 On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released
from 27 years in prison in South Africa. |
12 NAACP Founded in 1909- Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday |
13 Know their names: Black people killed by the police in
the US |
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14 Frederick Douglass’s Birthday! 1818-1895 |
15 Alice Coachman First female African American Olympic medalist |
16 “Yes we can.” -- Barack Obama, President of the
United States |
17 Michael Jordan’s Birthday! 1963 How Michael Jordan Became the First Modern African-American Superstar Athlete |
18 Toni Morrison’s Birthday! “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership
of that freed self was another.” WATCH: Remembering Toni Morrison |
19 James Earl Jones- 1997 Horatio Alger Award Winner LIST: Best Black History Movies Streaming - Black History Month
Movies on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime |
20 “Success is
to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” -- Booker T. Washington |
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21 Rep. John Lewis’s Birthday 1940 Remembering
the tenacious John Lewis |
22 “You may write me down in history with your bitter,
twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but
still, like dust, I'll rise.” -Maya Angelou |
23 W.E.B. Du Bois’s Birthday 1968-1963 |
24 How Black Parents Survived 2020 |
25 A Guide to the Art in Beyonce & Jay Z's Apesh-t Louvre Video Free Virtual Event- The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity |
26 WATCH: Oprah and Ibram X Kendi Talk Antiracism on AppleTV
Talk Show |
27 “Never be
limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut |
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28 “For to be
free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that
respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela |
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