(Photo By Flickr User Erik Drost) Black History Today for February 16th: 1870- Congress passed resolution readmitting Mississippi on condition that it would never change its constitution to disenfranchise Blacks. 1891- A. C. Richardson, a black inventor, invented the churn on this day. 1902- Opera singer Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, PA on this day. 1918- Birthday…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User randy stewart) Black History Today for February 16th: 1857- Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust. 1923- Bessie Smith makes her first recording, “Down Hearted Blues,” which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia Records on this day. 1951- New York City Council passed bill prohibiting racial discrimination in city-assisted…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Patrick Q) We’re now officially in the middle of the month of February and still rolling along with more African-American History Artifacts! Let’s take a trek back together and find out what happened with Black History, today! Black History Today for February 15th: 1804- The New Jersey Legislature…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Scott Beale) WVEL Black History Weekend Today for February 13th & February 14: February 13th: 1635- America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston, MA. Black students were excluded from attending. 1818- Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S., died on this day. 1892- The…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Bob n Renee) Black History Today for February 12th: 1793- First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress. 1865- Henry Highland Garnet was the first Black to speak in the Capitol on this day; Garnet delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. 1900- James Weldon Johnson…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Keith Ivey) Early voting has begun in Peoria County! According to cinewsnow.com, the Peoria County Election Commission in Peoria is just one of the spots you can vote early in the county. It is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on Adams St. in Peoria,…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Thomas Hawk) Black History Today for February 11th: 1644- First Black legal protest in America pressed by eleven Blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York). Council of New Netherlands freed the eleven petitioners because they had “served the Company seventeen or eighteen years” and had been “long since…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User B.C. Lorio) Black History Today for February 10th: 1787- Georgia’s House of Assembly named William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgia’s commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention. 1854- Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College (Salisbury, NC), was born on…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Wally Gobetz) Black History Today for February 9th: 1906- Death of poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar (33), Dayton, OH. 1944- Novelist Alice Walker was born on this day in Eatonton, GA. 1952- Author Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man wins the National Book Award. 1971- Baseball Hall of Fame inducts Leroy “Satchel” Paige.…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Walt Jabsco) Black History Today for February 8th: 1894- Congress repeals the Enforcement Act which makes it easier for some states to disenfranchise African American voters. 1925- Marcus Garvey entered federal prison in Atlanta, GA. Students staged strike at Fisk University (Nashville, TN) to protest policies of white administration. 1944- Harry S. McAlphin…… MORE
