A Taste of the Champions...

Featuring a Handful of History Makers.

25 Oct

October 25 1892- Irene McCoy

GM – FBF – Today our story centers around a civil rights activist, who like some others who left the streets and moved into the political field. While in politics she had an opportunity to really make a change for her and her people. Enjoy! Remember – ” Helping others in time of need is…

April 25, 2013- Gabourey Sidibe

25 Apr

April 25, 2013- Gabourey Sidibe

GM – FBF – The third (3) day of executive meetings and it’s hump day, thanks for bearing with me this week. I still can’t respond to any post but I thank you for stopping by. Today we have a younf black actress who took America by surprise. Make it a champion day! Remember –…

February 23, 1868 – William Edward Burghardt

23 Feb

February 23, 1868 – William Edward Burghardt

GM – FBF – “Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.” W. E. B. Du Bois Remember – “Education is the development of power and ideal.” W. E. B. Du Bois Today in our History – February 23, 1868 – Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator,…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

27 Aug

GM – FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Tragedy is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.The Birth of a…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American jazz trumpeter.

26 Jun

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American jazz trumpeter.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind four years’ worth of recordings. His compositions “Sandu”, “Joy Spring”, and “Daahoud” have become jazz standards. Brown won the Down Beat magazine Critics’ Poll for New Star of the Year…

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…

November 5 1901- Etta Moten Barnett

05 Nov

November 5 1901- Etta Moten Barnett

GM – FBF – Today’s story is about one of the great female pioneers of entertainment. She was so focused that she raised her children as a single parent and still finished her college which is tough during any era but in the 30’s was hard. Both Hollywood and New York Theater was honored with…

August 16 1947-Carol Moseley Braun

16 Aug

August 16 1947-Carol Moseley Braun

GM – FBF – Get ready for a great day! Let’s go back and examine the story of the first Black woman elected to sreve in the United States Senate. Enjoy! Remember – “Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.” – Carol Moseley…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, director, singer, and educator.

02 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, director, singer, and educator.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion is an American actor, director, singer, and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a person that made a lot of kids and adults smile.

30 Nov

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a person that made a lot of kids and adults smile.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a person that made a lot of kids and adults smile. It didn’t have to be a holiday but when it came to eating he was the person everyone respected. Necessity is the mother of invention and in 1875 this person discovered that there was a much…

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GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event took place when most American’s were afraid that something tragic was going to happen.

16 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event took place when most American’s were afraid that something tragic was going to happen.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event took place when most American’s were afraid that something tragic was going to happen. I was proud to be a part of it by being there and having the opportunity to speak the night before to a select group of high school students that were our talented…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American orator, activist, suffragist, and reformer.

15 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American orator, activist, suffragist, and reformer.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American orator, activist, suffragist, and reformer. Called “the best known Colored Woman in the United States,” She was among the most prominent African Americans of her time. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.Today in our History – October 15, 1923…

GM –LIF – Today’s American Champion was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar who became the first African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, where he served for the balance of his academic life.

14 Oct

GM –LIF – Today’s American Champion was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar who became the first African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, where he served for the balance of his academic life.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a United States Navy officer.

13 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a United States Navy officer.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the U.S. Navy’s basic flight training program, was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War.Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to an impoverished family, Brown…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event is a U.S. National Historic Landmark (designated as such on October 12, 1994), located two miles north of St. Augustine, Florida, on the edge of a salt marsh on the western side of the waterway separating the mainland from the coastal barrier islands.

12 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion event is a U.S. National Historic Landmark (designated as such on October 12, 1994), located two miles north of St. Augustine, Florida, on the edge of a salt marsh on the western side of the waterway separating the mainland from the coastal barrier islands.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor and businessman, best known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.

11 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor and businessman, best known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American inventor and businessman, best known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors. Today in our History – October 11, 1887 – Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) – He was awarded U.S. Patent 371,207 on October 11,…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist.

10 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording “Since I Met You Baby” (1956). He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champions event started out on September 18, 1932 as a black pilot, took off from Dycer Airport, Los Angeles in an orange and black Alexander Eaglerock biplane along with his mechanic, to embark on a historic 3,000 mile journey across the U.S.A in a rickety airplane put together with surplus parts and a sputtering 14-year old Curtiss engine.

09 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champions event started out on September 18, 1932 as a black pilot, took off from Dycer Airport, Los Angeles in an orange and black Alexander Eaglerock biplane along with his mechanic, to embark on a historic 3,000 mile journey across the U.S.A in a rickety airplane put together with surplus parts and a sputtering 14-year old Curtiss engine.

08 Oct

GM – FBF _ Today’s American Champion event was only 50 years after the defeat of the British at Yorktown, most Americans had already forgotten the extensive role black people had played on both sides during the War for Independence.

GM – FBF _ Today’s American Champion event was only 50 years after the defeat of the British at Yorktown, most Americans had already forgotten the extensive role black people had played on both sides during the War for Independence. At the 1876 Centennial Celebration of the Revolution in Philadelphia, not a single speaker acknowledged…

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American politician in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era.

07 Oct

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American politician in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era.

GM – FBF – Today’s American Champion was an African-American politician in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era. A Republican, he was elected to the state legislature in 1870 and as Secretary of State in 1872. While serving as secretary of state in 1873, He enrolled as the first student of color in the University…