A Taste of the Champions...

Featuring a Handful of History Makers.

19 Jun

June 19 1865- Juneteenth Day

GM – FBF – Today is the black holiday known as Juneteenth Day. Some of the people up North may or may not had heard about this day. So let’s take a deeper look at this. Enjoy! Remember – The emancipation of Black people in Texas is finially here. So rejoyce! – Fredrick Douglass Today…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American singer and political activist.

13 Dec

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American singer and political activist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American singer and political activist. She promoted racial pride through her support and promotion of music education for African Americans.Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, she learned to play the piano at age three and took voice and violin lessons as a child. Due to her very light…

13 Apr

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners. Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons about terrorist attacks on the United States…

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

14 Apr

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

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American professional baseball player.Howard on the field was a catcher, left fielder and coach. During a 14-year baseball career, he played in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball from 1948 through 1968, primarily for the New York Yankees. He also played for the Kansas City…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor.

12 Apr

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and actor. He started his career with Donald Byrd. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In…

GM – FBF Today’s American Champion was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

17 Aug

GM – FBF Today’s American Champion was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

GM – FBF Today’s American Champion was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Known as the “Potato King of the World” by 1902, Groves optimized potato growth methods, out-producing anyone else in the world to that point. His vast financial success—analyzed further…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a little challenging for me to research because there is not that much Information on this event for the time that I had.

21 Mar

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a little challenging for me to research because there is not that much Information on this event for the time that I had.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was a little challenging for me to research because there is not that much Information on this event for the time that I had. We all have heard the stories of Christopher Columbus and his voyages. In Trenton, N.J. where I am from as a young student…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was were the first 33 African-American members of the Georgia General Assembly who were elected to office in 1868, during the Reconstruction era.

01 Sep

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was were the first 33 African-American members of the Georgia General Assembly who were elected to office in 1868, during the Reconstruction era.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event was were the first 33 African-American members of the Georgia General Assembly who were elected to office in 1868, during the Reconstruction era. They were among the first African-American state legislators in the United States. Twenty-four of the members were ministers.After most of the legislators voted for…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first Black professional American football player.

15 Apr

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first Black professional American football player.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was the first Black professional American football player. He played for the Shelby Blues of the “Ohio League” from 1902 to 1906. On September 16, 1904, he signed a contract with Shelby making him the first Black man contracted to play professional football on an integrated team. He…

May 27 1973- Shirley Ann Jackson

27 May

May 27 1973- Shirley Ann Jackson

GM – FBF – This powerful black woman taught at Rutgers University, so she has to be one of the best, Enjoy! Remember – “We need to go back to the discovery, to posing a question, to having a hypothesis and having kids know that they can discover the answers and can peal away a…

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29 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is the 17-year-old was playing in her first grand slam quarterfinal, but trailing 4-0 in the second set, a frustrated she smashed her racquet on the clay court after she double faulted.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is the 17-year-old was playing in her first grand slam quarterfinal, but trailing 4-0 in the second set, a frustrated she smashed her racquet on the clay court after she double faulted.She ran her opponent close in the opening set, with Krejcikova needing a dramatic tiebreak to gain…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is one of the most renowned names in the history of American gymnastics, she recognized her passion for gymnastics at an early age of 6 years and attended lessons with Kelli Hill who remained her coach for the rest of her gymnastics career.

20 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is one of the most renowned names in the history of American gymnastics, she recognized her passion for gymnastics at an early age of 6 years and attended lessons with Kelli Hill who remained her coach for the rest of her gymnastics career.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was called all kinds of names by his own people for taking roles that projected Blacks as inferior.

19 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was called all kinds of names by his own people for taking roles that projected Blacks as inferior.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was called all kinds of names by his own people for taking roles that projected Blacks as inferior. I learned from my great Uncle Leon Busby the real history and from then on I would correct people when they called our people on the screen or movies what…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a former slave and veteran of the American Civil War, serving in the U.S. Navy.

18 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a former slave and veteran of the American Civil War, serving in the U.S. Navy.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a former slave and veteran of the American Civil War, serving in the U.S. Navy. His diary is one of only a few written during the Civil War by former slaves that have survived, and then only by a formerly enslaved sailor.Today in our History – November…

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

17 Nov

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

GM – FBF – Today’s 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…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician.

16 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician. He may be best known as a trusted member of fellow famed civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner circle.Under the banner of their flagship organization, the Southern…

15 Nov

GM – FBF– Today’s American Champion was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as Lieutenant Al Giardello.

GM – FBF– Today’s American Champion was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction/horror film Alien (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film The Running Man (1987). He portrayed the…

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

14 Nov

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.Today in our History – November 14, 1968 – Lionel James “L-Train” Simmons is born.Simmons led South Philadelphia High School to a Philadelphia Public League boys’ championship in 1986, getting an MVP award in the process. He was inducted into the Philadelphia…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869.

13 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869. He was the first African-American diplomat and the fourth U.S. ambassador to Haiti since the two countries established relations in 1862.His asset was appointed as new leaders emerged among free African Americans after the…

12 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a Bahamian-born American entertainer, one of the pre-eminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He is credited as being the first black man to have the leading role in a film: Darktown Jubilee in 1914.He…