A Taste of the Champions...

Featuring a Handful of History Makers.

09 Dec

December 9 1892- Clevland Leigh

GM – FBF – I always enjoy telling any story about my beloved New Jersey, born in Camden, raised in Trenton and owned property in Trenton, Willingboro and Edgewater Park. My family members still reside in Mercer, Burlington, Camden and Atlantic Counties. Today’s story has a link in Willingboro to the famed track family of…

September 24 1957- The Little Rock Nine

24 Sep

September 24 1957- The Little Rock Nine

GM – FBF – Today, I would like to share with you a story that is always close to my heart because I was part of the Supreme Court decision of “Brown v Board”. In 1957 I was ready to go to an elementary school that had black teachers for black students (segregation) but with…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor, who patented the friction heater.

05 Aug

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor, who patented the friction heater.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor, who patented the friction heater.Today in our History – August 3, 1859 – Charles S. Lewis Baker was born. There are so many little-known black inventors and Charles S.L Baker is one of them.He was born in Savannah, Missouri on August 3, 1859 and…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil servant and politician.

06 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil servant and politician.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil servant and politician. He was chief executive of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first home-rule mayor of the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1979.After a career…

May 26 1928- Bunion Derby

26 May

May 26 1928- Bunion Derby

GM – FBF – Even during the “Great Depression” people of color were doing outstanding feats but little to no recognition. Read the story of the first national footrace which people of color won three spots in the top ten. Enjoy! Remember – “Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part…

June 18 1889- The Baby Carriage Is Patient

18 Jun

June 18 1889- The Baby Carriage Is Patient

GM – GFB – Today I will Introduce you to a Black Inventor, whose Invention which will still see millions of every day. Enjoy! Remember – “When I patened my Invention, I knew it would offer hundreads of Americans a way to get exercise and a way for parents to get looks any where they…

April 19, 1968- Operation Equity

19 Apr

April 19, 1968- Operation Equity

GM – FBF – I don’t think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don’t think we can address housing without understanding landlords. – Fredrick Duglass Remember – Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall…

May 16 1917- Eugene Jacques Bullard

16 May

May 16 1917- Eugene Jacques Bullard

GM – FBF – The “Great War” , World War I America had no black flying airmen but in World War II we will hear of the Tuskegee Airmen. Read the story of an American who flew a plane long before America would let blacks fly. Enjoy! Remember – “Tout le sang qui coule rouge;…

18 May

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Louisiana law passed in 1890 “providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a Louisiana law passed in 1890 “providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.” The law, which required that all passenger railways provide separate cars for blacks and whites, stipulated that the…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American amateur golfer.

25 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American amateur golfer.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American amateur golfer. Black newspapers had called her “The Queen of Negro Women’s Golf.” As stated in Arthur Ashe’s book, Hard Road to Glory, many observers called Gregory the best African-American female golfer of the 20th century. Gregory learned to play golf while her husband was…

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GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American actor and filmmaker.

25 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American actor and filmmaker.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV’s The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show and directed films including the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus. He was a pioneering African-American film producer and director.Today in our History – September 25, 1991 – Spencer Williams’s 1942…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.

24 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He was also father to the venerable civil rights advocate and historian John Hope Franklin.Today in our History – September 24, 1960 – Buck Franklin (May…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American professional baseball outfielder.

23 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American professional baseball outfielder.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American professional baseball outfielder. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent the majority of his big league career as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.

22 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.Thomas is best known for the “exuberant”, colorful, abstract paintings that she created after her retirement from a 35-year career teaching art at…

GM , FBF – Today’s American Champion was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique.

21 Sep

GM , FBF – Today’s American Champion was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique.

GM , FBF – Today’s American Champion was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique. He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary and Francophone literature.Today in our History – September 21, 1928 – Edouard Glissant (21 September 1928 – 3 February 2011)…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is s an American actress, producer, and political activist.

20 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is s an American actress, producer, and political activist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is s an American actress, producer, and political activist. She has been named one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, and eighteen Emmy Awards (winning four); additionally, she received a Golden Globe Award…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American physician and politician.

19 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American physician and politician.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American physician and politician. She served as the 4th elected non-voting Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands’s at-large district to the United States House of Representatives from 1997 until 2015.Today in our History – September 19, 1945 – Donna Marie Christian-Christensen, formerly Donna Christian-Green was…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895.

18 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. The speech laid the foundation for the Atlanta compromise, an agreement between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders in which Southern blacks…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago.

17 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago. He became the first African American to be elected as the city’s mayor in April 1983 after a multiracial coalition of progressives supported his election. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983 until his…

GM-FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is were Ten buses belonging to the Pontiac school system were destroyed by dynamite on the night of Aug.

16 Sep

GM-FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is were Ten buses belonging to the Pontiac school system were destroyed by dynamite on the night of Aug.

GM-FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is were Ten buses belonging to the Pontiac school system were destroyed by dynamite on the night of Aug. 30, 1971, just days before a court‐ordered plan to bus children across town to achieve racial Integration went into effect.Today in our History – September 16, 1971 – Klansman go on…