EPISODE 31
Podcast Notes
Introduction to Alexander Twilight
His parents
father, Ichabod was black or mulatto
His mother, Mary's race, is not certain
His education
He completed not only the secondary...
(December 1, 1940- April 9, 2011)
Photo credits: The Estate of Jerry Lawson (Jerry Lawson)
Before Xbox, PlayStation, or even Atari, you had to buy a...
Alexander Lucius Twilight was the first Black-American known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university. He was also the...
In 1956, Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick later led the United Nations’ Human Rights Division. She attended Harvard in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down, joining only a handful of women and the only black woman a one year before Ruth Bader Ginsburg started as a first-year student at the school.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first African-American woman and federal public defender to sit on the supreme court. Jackson will replace Associate Justice Stephen...
Introduction
Hip-hop has become among the most well-known and significant musical genres worldwide, but it wasn't always that way. Hip-hop was largely an underground movement...