Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey was founded by Fawn Weaver to honor the memory of Nearest Green, an enslaved African American who helped Jack Daniel to start his distillery. The 270-acre distillery became the first in U.S. history to honor an African-American whiskey maker, and one of the few distilleries in the country owned and operated Read More…
Viola Fletcher was 7 yrs old when white armed mobs descended on Tulsa, Oklahoma, Killing Black People and destroyings Seven-year-old Viola Fletcher was awakened by her parents 100 years ago today and told they had to leave home. Angry, gun-toting white mobs had set out under the cover of nightfall in her hometown of Tulsa, Read More…
Tulsa Massacre, aired on HBO’S Watchmen, “Sunday night” was something I thought I’d never see on television: the depiction of a dark day in American history that not many know about—the Tulsa massacre. Late in the afternoon of May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland needed to use the bathroom. A 19-year-old black shoe-shiner working in segregated Oklahoma, Read More…
Seven-year-old Viola Fletcher was awakened by her parents 100 years ago today and told they had to leave home. Angry, gun-toting white mobs had set out under the cover of nightfall in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to kill Black people and destroy Black America’s economic mecca. Now 107, Fletcher recalls the night that forever changed Read More…
Vivian Cunningham, who is a 78-year old great-grandmother of three, has earned her undergraduate degree in liberal studies at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. “If I could have done cartwheels across the stage, I would have,” she told Today. Cunningham, who is a single mother of 2, grandmother of 3, and great-grandmother of 3, spent 6 Read More…
An African American couple has gone viral after sharing their photos on Instagram in celebration of their 15th wedding anniversary with their 11 children. The husband, identified only as Kaymo, posted several beautiful oceanfront photos on his Instagram account @TheAmazinKaymo with a bio that reads, “Husband to a Queen that Gave Me 11 Kids.” The couple were Read More…
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