A Taste of the Champions...

Featuring a Handful of History Makers.

February 22, 1915 – Robert Smalls

22 Feb

February 22, 1915 – Robert Smalls

GM – FBF- “My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.” (US Congress – R – S.C.) Robert Smalls Remember – “The Party of Lincoln which unshackled…

February 28 1964- Thelonious Monk

28 Feb

February 28 1964- Thelonious Monk

GM – FBF – I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want ? you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing ? even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years. – Thelonious Monk Remember – I don’t conside myself a musician who has…

November 15 2007- John Cross Junior

15 Nov

November 15 2007- John Cross Junior

GM – FBF – Today’s Story is about John Cross Jr. who was the pastor at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. where I had the pleasure of speaking a few years back. The same church that was bombed in 1963, where the killing of four girls accrued. The event was a turning point…

May 1 2014- Janet Emerson Bashen

01 May

May 1 2014- Janet Emerson Bashen

GM – FBF – We have made it to another new month and I have been blessed to bring you every day reminders and people that you have not heard about. Today we examine a strong black woman. Remember – ” Our black women can do anything in life as they want. You must have…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer.

21 Aug

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer.He is most well-known for creating and starring in the film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. He is the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.Today in Black History – August 21, 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles was born.Filmmaker, author,…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist.

01 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. He designed it so astronauts could use it on the lunar surface, making all adjustments inside their bulky…

19 Apr

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983. Robinson is noted as the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States. Robinson was a founder of the National Association…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was was an American minister and evangelist based in New York City.

28 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was was an American minister and evangelist based in New York City.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was was an American minister and evangelist based in New York City. He was known for the slogan “You can’t lose with the stuff I use!” Though his preaching is considered a form of prosperity theology, Rev. Ike diverged from traditional Christian theology and taught what he called…

August 9 1902- Mary Lucille Perkins

09 Aug

August 9 1902- Mary Lucille Perkins

GM – FBF – And what a great day it will be. I would like to share a story with you. How many of you have had someone knock on your door not to buy anything but wants to sit and visit with you about their vision spin? Sometimes you hide and won’t answer the…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American former professional basketball player.

12 Jan

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American former professional basketball player.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American former professional basketball player. He was a nine-time NBA All-Star and is widely viewed as one of the best dunkers in NBA history, earning the nickname “the Human Highlight Reel”. In 2006, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.In addition to…

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GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a physician and author noted for his efforts to create opportunities for African Americans in science, specifically for medical doctors.

31 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a physician and author noted for his efforts to create opportunities for African Americans in science, specifically for medical doctors.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a physician and author noted for his efforts to create opportunities for African Americans in science, specifically for medical doctors. He was known both as the founder, editor and publisher of Medical and Surgical Observer (the first medical journal issued by an African American), as well as…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

29 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American economist, academic, and political administrator who served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is best known as “Sugar”, he is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor.

28 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is best known as “Sugar”, he is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is best known as “Sugar”, he is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed from 1977 to 1997, winning world titles in five weight divisions; the lineal championship in three weight divisions;…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event is The Legacy of Historically Black College and Universities on the Gridiron.

27 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event is The Legacy of Historically Black College and Universities on the Gridiron.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event is The Legacy of Historically Black College and Universities on the Gridiron.Today in our History – December 27, 1892 – Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith University) played Livingstone College.With a few exceptions, Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) were established in southern states after the Civil…

GM – FBF – Toda’s American Champion were often; greatness is determined by the times in which one finds oneself.

26 Dec

GM – FBF – Toda’s American Champion were often; greatness is determined by the times in which one finds oneself.

GM – FBF – Toda’s American Champion were often; greatness is determined by the times in which one finds oneself. For our champion, growing up in the earliest stages of the space race, he like most other boys was fascinated with space travel. Unlike most of those boys, he would ultimately go on to make…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion organization were perhaps the most influential African-American journals of the late 1850s and the Civil War era.

24 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion organization were perhaps the most influential African-American journals of the late 1850s and the Civil War era.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion organization were perhaps the most influential African-American journals of the late 1850s and the Civil War era. They were unique in that they served as forums for debate rather than simply reflecting the views of the publisher.December 24,1865 – The Weekly Anglo-African newspaper and the Anglo-African magazine folded….

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace.

23 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace.Today in our History – December 23, 1919 – Alice H. Parker patented a system of central heating using natural gas.Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States.

22 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States. He received his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1916.Today in our History – December 22, 1884 Saint Elmo Brady was born.State Elmo Brady was born on December 22, 1884 in…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Campion is an American actor and producer.

21 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Campion is an American actor and producer.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Campion is an American actor and producer. Widely regarded as one of the most popular actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time (when cameo appearances are excluded). He rose to…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event, shook the world and sent the Union in a tailspin with this treason’s act.

20 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event, shook the world and sent the Union in a tailspin with this treason’s act.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event, shook the world and sent the Union in a tailspin with this treason’s act.Today in our History – December 20, 1860 – South Carolina became the first Southern state to secede from the Union. The convention, which gathered in Charleston, concluded: “The union now subsisting between South…