Enlightened Free Thinking Nubian Kings And Queens

Teacher, writer, and women’s activist Hallie Quinn Brown was born on March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of former slaves who in 1864 migrated to Canada. she grew up in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.  The Brown family returned to the United States in 1870, settling in Wilberforce, Ohio.  Brown attended Wilberforce College and received a degree in 1873.  She then taught in freedman’s schools in Mississippi before moving to Columbia, South Carolina in 1875 where she served briefly as an instructor in the city’s public schools.  By September 1875 she joined the faculty at Allen University.  Brown taught at Allen between 1875 and 1885 and then for the next two years (1885-1887) served as Dean of the University.  Brown also served as Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute during the 1892-1893 school year before returning to Ohio where she taught in the Dayton public schools.     Brown had since childhood held an interest in ...

Lucy Craft Laney, educator, school founder, and civil rights activist, was born on April 13, 1854 in Macon, Georgia to free parents Louisa and David Laney.   David Laney, a Presbyterian minister and skilled carpenter, had purchased his freedom approximately twenty years before Lucy Laney’s birth.  He purchased Louisa’s freedom shortly after they were married. Lucy Laney learned to read and write by the age of four and by the time she was twelve, she was able to translate difficult passages in Latin including Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War. Laney attended Lewis (later Ballard) High School in Macon, Georgia and in 1869, at the age of fifteen; she joined Atlanta University’s first class.  Four years later she graduated from the teacher’s training program at the University.  After teaching for ten years in Macon, Savannah, Milledgeville, and Augusta, she in 1883 opened her own school in the basement of Christ Presbyterian Church in...

Educator, essayist, journalist, scholar, social critic, and activist W.E.B. DuBois, was born to Mary Sylvina Burghardt and Alfred Dubois on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.   He excelled in the public schools, graduating valedictorian from his high school in 1884.  Four years later he received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1890 DuBois earned a second bachelor's degree from Harvard University.  DuBois began two years of graduate studies in History and Economics at the University of Berlin in Germany in 1892 and then returned to the United States to begin a two year stint teaching Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio.  In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard University.  His doctoral thesis,  "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America, " became the first book published by Harvard University Press in 1896.  Later that year Du...

Richard Claxton  " Dick "  Gregory  (born October 12, 1932) is an American comedian,  civil rights  activist, social critic, conspiracy theorist, writer and entrepreneur. Gregory is an influential American comedian who has used his performance skills to convey to both white and black audiences his political message on civil rights. His social satire helped change the way white Americans perceived black American comedians since he first performed in public.  As a poor student who excelled at running, Gregory was aided by teachers at  Sumner High School , among them Warren St. James. Gregory earned a track scholarship to   Southern Illinois University Carbondale   There he set school records as a half-miler and miler. His college career was interrupted for two years in 1954 when he was drafted into the   U.S. Army . The army was where he got his start in comedy, entering and winning several Army talent shows at the urging of hi...

(born  Elmer Pratt , September 13, 1947 – June 2, 2011), also known as  Geronimo ji-Jaga  and  Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt , was a high-ranking member of the  Black Panther Party . The  Federal Bureau of Investigation  targeted him in a  COINTELPRO   operation, which aimed to "neutralize Pratt as an effective BPP functionary."  Pratt was tried and convicted of the kidnap and murder of Caroline Olsen in 1972, and spent 27 years in prison, eight of which were in  solitary confinement . Pratt was freed in 1997 when his conviction was vacated. He was working as a  human rights  activist up until the time of his death. Pratt was also the  godfather  of the late rapper  Tupac Shakur .  He died of a heart attack in his adopted country,  Tanzania , on June 3, 2011. Elmer Pratt was born in  Morgan City, Louisiana , where his father was in the scrap metal business. Pratt was a high school  quart...

David Banner is an inspiration to me. For he's one of the few rappers, producers, beat makers, etc who is in the spotlight and still speaks out  against violence in the "Black" community, on national news shows such as CNN, etc and he's talked about it in several of his interviews. He brings truth to light. I thank him, appreciate him and I salute him. I ask that you tell me what you think about David Banner, his activism and his music. I share with you but, a few YouTube vids and an article about him. http://allhiphop.com/2007/08/16/david-banner-stop-attacking-the-kids/