To Inspire You

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged th

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Today In History

• In 1991 - Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson is named assistant general manager of the club, the third African American to become as assistant GM
  
• In 1922 - Samuel Gravely, first African American admiral in the U.S. Navy, and first African American to command a U.S. warship, born