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Black History Month
  • In 1923 - On this day Bessie Smith makes her first recording, "Down Hearted Blues," which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia Records
  • In 1972 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBA player to reach 30,000 point plateau

To Inspire You

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen


Toni Morrison