Month: January 2022

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Pianist/ R&B singer Betty Everett was born on November 23, 1939, in Greenwood, Mississippi. Her early…

As you will see below, historians agree that the first twenty Africans landed in Virginia in 1619. What is in dispute is their exact status. Were they enslaved people from…

The Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first documented protest of enslavement of African Americans made by a religious body in the thirteen colonies. The colony of Pennsylvania was…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!New Jack-Swing R&B singer Montell Du’Sean Barnett Jordan was born on December 3, 1968, in Los…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!R&B singer Deon Jackson was born on January 26, 1946, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He played…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Billy Paul, a major artist of the Philadelphia Soul Sound, was born Paul Williams in North…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Composer, lyricist, blues singer Clarence George Carter was born blind on January 14, 1936, in Montgomery,…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Composer, pianist/ singer Ivory Joe Hunter was born on October 10, 1914, in Kirbyville, Texas to…