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Via: bing.com Hotels With a Past: Lorraine Hotel, Memphis, Tenn. This Memphis hotel was where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed during the sanitation workers’ strike in 1968 — and where he was assassinated on April 4 while standing on the balcony of room 306.
1945-Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae star is born in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. He continues to be an internationally recognized musical icon.
1934: Henry “Home Run King” Aaron, baseball superstar was born in Mobile, Alabama. He held the record for most career Home Runs for 31 years.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley ( 1913 – 2005 ) Via: biorgraphy.com Civil-rights activist. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus spurred on a city-wide boycott and helped launch nation-wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.
On the extended version of his 1988 single “I Wish U Heaven,” Prince sang “Take this beat / I don’t mind / Got plenty others / and they’re so fine!” Apparently a few hip-hop producers got the message and began mining Prince’s catalog for samples! Here are a few of our favorites! Kanye West “Big […]
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Rosa Parks was born on this day in Tuskeegee, AL in 1913. Ms. Parks earned numerous awards for her life-long dedication to social change and justice.
Ralph Ellison was the first novelist to portray the Black experience as a critical part of the American experience. His seminal novel, “Invisible Man,” was his only major work, but his letters, articles and fiction work established him as one of the most important writers in history. “Invisible Man” encapsulated the feelings of Black men […]
The legendary DJ Kool Herc is a brother in need. He is hospitalized for an unrevealed condition and currently has no medical insurance. So DJ Premier announced on his radio show, “Live from the HeadQCourterz” that the legend is in need of financial assistance. While there’s no specific details on Herc’s illness, Premier claims […]
