A Taste of the Champions...

Featuring a Handful of History Makers.

March 6, 1972-Zoe Dusanne

06 Mar

March 6, 1972-Zoe Dusanne

GM- FBF – Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Zoë Dusanne Remember – “The NAACP in Seatle needs a new vision and I want to help them travel down that road with all of the recources that I can gather” – Zoe Dusanne Today in our…

November 20 1910- Pauli Murray

20 Nov

November 20 1910- Pauli Murray

GM – FBF – Today I want to share with you a story of a black woman, who was well educated and also one of the founders of (NOW) National Organization for Woman. Enjoy! Remember – “We had been led to believe that American education is inferior. We have been impressed with American technology, however,…

February 18, 1867 – James Nathaniel Brown

18 Feb

February 18, 1867 – James Nathaniel Brown

GM – FBF – Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. Remember – “I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.” Jim Brown Today in our History – February 17, 1936 – James Nathaniel Brown was born. Brown was…

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

23 Dec

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

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor known for her patent for a gas furnace.Today in our History – December 23, 1919 – Alice H. Parker patients the gas furnace.Little is known about Alice H. Parkers life, with most of the information coming from Howard University records of her attendance and…

September 17 1970- Flip Wilson

17 Sep

September 17 1970- Flip Wilson

GM – FBF – Today, I want to share with you a story of the first successful Black television variety show, Nat “King” Cole tried in the ‘50’s but they were not ready to sponsor his show. Bill Cosby showed that the 60’s were better to be a co-star in a hour show. While Black…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event took place on the night of May 24, 1856, the radical abolitionist and five of his sons, and three other associates murdered five proslavery men at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek, near present-day Lane, Kansas.

24 May

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event took place on the night of May 24, 1856, the radical abolitionist and five of his sons, and three other associates murdered five proslavery men at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek, near present-day Lane, Kansas.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion did what no other in his position has done.

26 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion did what no other in his position has done.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion did what no other in his position has done. It assisted our people to apply for better pay jobs, better education and housing.Today on our History – July 26, 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981—ending discrimination in the military—on July 26, 1948.President Harry S….

GM – FBF – Today’ American Champion was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist

29 May

GM – FBF – Today’ American Champion was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist

GM – FBF – Today’ American Champion was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case…

05 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad and co-founder of the New England Freedom Association, and politician, serving one term as a Massachusetts state legislator.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad and co-founder of the New England Freedom Association, and politician, serving one term as a Massachusetts state legislator. He worked as a caterer in Boston, starting his own business at the age of 36.Today in our History – July 5,…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion in 1982, he was a black engineer, was convicted for the armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant near Dallas, Texas, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

02 Apr

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion in 1982, he was a black engineer, was convicted for the armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant near Dallas, Texas, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion in 1982, he was a black engineer, was convicted for the armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant near Dallas, Texas, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This occurred despite conflicts in eyewitness testimony, co-workers’ claims that he was at work at the time of the robbery, and his lack…

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GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an early African-American abolitionist, Freemason, and Mormon elder from Massachusetts.

03 Aug

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an early African-American abolitionist, Freemason, and Mormon elder from Massachusetts.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an early African-American abolitionist, Freemason, and Mormon elder from Massachusetts. He was an active member of the Underground Railroad and the anti-slavery movement.Today in our History – August 3, 1798 – Kwaku Walker Lewis was born.Lewis was born on August 3, 1798, in Barre, Massachusetts, to Peter…

GM- FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist.

02 Aug

GM- FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist.

GM- FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century. Some of Baldwin’s essays are book-length, including The Fire Next…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, and artist.

01 Aug

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, and artist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. In 1973, he played the villainous Baron Samedi in the Bond film Live and Let Die. He…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, producer, martial artist and entrepreneur.

31 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, producer, martial artist and entrepreneur.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, producer, martial artist and entrepreneur. He was born on July 31, 1962 in Orlando, Florida to Wesley and Maryann Snipes, and grew up in the Bronx, New York. He was inclined towards becoming a dancer at first but later changed his mind when he…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American film marketing and public relations executive.

30 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American film marketing and public relations executive.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American film marketing and public relations executive. She represented the Public Relations Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), known for its annual Academy Awards (Oscars), on the AMPAS Board of Governors for 21 years, until 2013. On July 30, 2013 she…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist.

29 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a three-day conference in Boston organized by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, a civil rights leader and suffragist. In August 1895, representatives from 42 African-American women’s clubs from 14 states convened at Berkeley Hall for the purpose of creating a national organization. It was the first event…

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…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion did what no other in his position has done.

26 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion did what no other in his position has done.

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…

24 Jul

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American and later British actor and playwright who made his career after 1824 largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American and later British actor and playwright who made his career after 1824 largely on the London stage and in Europe, especially in Shakespearean roles. Born in New York City, Aldridge is the only actor of African-American descent among the thirty-three actors of the English stage…