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African-American History Month of February is still going strong!
If you want to see who made history on this day, get your information right here,right now……….…
Black History Today for February 22nd:
1989: “DJ Jazzy” Jeff Townes and Will “The Fresh Prince” Smith win the 1st rap Grammy for the hit single “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” (Can you name the album that this song came from?)
1950: Julius Winfield ( “Dr.J”) Erving, II former basketball player and actor, was born on this day in Roosevelt (Nassau County), NY
1911: “The Bronze Muse” Frances Ellen Watkins Harper died in Philadelphia, PA on this day. Harper wrote more than a dozen books, including Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854); Moses, A Story Of The Nile (1869); and Sketches of Southern Life (1872). Harper was the most famous female poet of her day and the most famous African-American poet of the 19th century. Also a well-known orator, she spoke frequently in public (sometimes twice in one day) promoting equal rights for women and African-Americans. She was also a worker for the Underground Railroad, and in 1896 she helped establish the National Association of Colored Women.
(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)
