MorehouseCollege founded as Augusta Institute, 1867


Gregory Hines, actor and dancer, born, 1946


FEBRUARY 15~~US and African nationalists protesting the slaying of Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba disrupt UN sessions, 1961


Nat King Cole, singer and pianist, dies, 1964


FEBRUARY 16~~Frederick Douglass, orator and activist, elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust, 1857


Joe Fraizer knocks out Jimmy Ellis to become world heavyweight champion, 1970


FEBRUARY 17~Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, born, 1942


Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, dies, 1982



FEBRUARY 18~~Gambia Independence Day



FEBRUARY 19~~WEB Dubois, activist, organizes the first Pan-African Congress, 1919



FEBRUARY 20~~JF Pickering patents his airship invention, 1900


Sydney Poitier, actor, born, 1927

Feb. 13th

First Black Pro. Basketball Team

The Laker! ... I mean

THE RENNAISSANCE organized 1923

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"We are unknown to ourselves,
we seekers after knowledge."
Nietzsche

the crown king n prince of reggae the right HON Robert N. Marley n Prince Denise E. Brown.

jus my 2pences worth

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