Today In Black History
Facts You Should Know!
Issue #419 Black History November 17, 2023
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Today’s Black WOW: The lone Black defendant in the Fulton County RICO trial, Harrison Floyd, a former Black Voices for Trump director, is in danger of having his bond revoked and being sent back to jail because he continues to sprew lies and make intimating statements against witnesses and others on far-right radio shows and social media. His bond hearing is set for next Tuesday.
Today’s Black History:
In 1842, the capture of George Latimer in Boston led to the first fugitive slave case. Boston abolitionists raised money to purchase Latimer from his slaveholder.
In 1903, the kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) became a French protectorate.
In 1911, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University.
In 1972, Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta became the first African American elected to Congress from the South since Reconstruction.
In 1980, WHMM-TV in Washington, D.C. became the first African-American broadcasting TV station.
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