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James William D. Bland was born on February 27, 1844, in Prince Edward County, the son of Hercules Bland and Mary Bland. Bland’s father was a free man and a cooper who purchased his wife to ensure their children’s freedom. Bland was taught to read and write by a slave in the household of his mother’s former owner. He worked with his father as a cooper and carpenter until 1864, when he entered an American Missionary Association school in Norfolk. For two years he studied there and also tau...

Constructing a HouseGeorge William Cole was born in Athens, Georgia, late in the 1840s. The record of his 1879 marriage identified his parents, William Cole and Martha Cole, as freedpersons, but little else is known of his youth. By early in the 1870s he was living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Inspired perhaps by his parents or by the heady events of emancipation and Reconstruction, Cole developed a desire for education and self-improvement. In 1872 he enrolled in the junior class of the Hampton ...

( ThyBlackMan.com) As longtime admirers of legendary civil rights pioneer and educational entrepreneur Booker T. Washington, we felt compelled to pay tribute to this profoundly influential American during Born into slavery on April 18, 1856 in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, Washington died a free man 59 years later on November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama. From a young age, he understood the power of education.  He worked hard and earned degrees from Hampton Normal, an agricultural institute (toda...

( ThyBlackMan.com) As longtime admirers of legendary civil rights pioneer and educational entrepreneur Booker T. Washington, we felt compelled to pay tribute to this profoundly influential American during Born into slavery on April 18, 1856 in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, Washington died a free man 59 years later on November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama. From a young age, he understood the power of education.  He worked hard and earned degrees from Hampton Normal, an agricultural institute (toda...

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Kent M. MacDonald.As longtime admirers of legendary civil rights pioneer and educational entrepreneur Booker T. Washington, we felt compelled to pay tribute to this

Read more The women have much in common: They were born within a few years of one another; they all married men trained in the church; their lives spanned the 20th century; all three outlived their sons. And yet they were very different from each other. Louise Langdon Little, who became the mother of Malcolm X, was Caribbean and biracial. Born in 1897, “the exact details of her conception have been lost to history,” Tubbs notes, but it is believed that her mother was raped by a white man. S...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: The Three Mothers honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Lisa Page, The Washington Post Feb. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Motherhood is said to be its own reward. You learn to give of yourself, and this will stretch you, as a person. But you may also learn to put yourself in the background, which will shrink you - and even make you disappear. History does this to us anyway, argues scholar Anna Mala...

In her new book, Anna Malaika Tubbs shines a light on the strong women behind three influential Black leaders

Celebrate Black History Month by looking back on Kentucky history makers Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Special to Louisville Courier Journal © Courtesy of Kentucky Center for African American Heritage Carter Godwin Woodson Editors note: The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage will provide The Courier Journal with a Black History Maker each day during Black History Month. The center’s goals are to enhance the public’s knowledge about the history,...

RICHMOND — Disappointed with a recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling about the use of license plate readers, Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, is renewing his push to limit how long law enforcement agencies can retain data collected by the devices. The bill he introduced in the General Assembly would limit how long agencies can retain the data the automated readers collect to no more than 30 days, unless the information is actively being used in an investigation. His bill passed the Senate on ...