Michael Franti and Spearhead at Folsom Prison

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Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885)

Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, arguably the first proponent of black nationalism; Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of Black nationalism.[1] He was also one of the first three blacks people admitted to Harvard Medical School. Trained as an assistant and a physician, he treated patients during the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, when many doctors and residents fled the city. He worked alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star. Active in recruiting blacks for the United States Colored Troops, he was commissioned as a major, the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War.

After the Civil War, he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in the South, settling in South Carolina, where he became politically active. He ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor and was appointed a Trial Judge. Later he switched his party loyalty and worked for the campaign of Democrat Wade Hampton III, who won the 1876 election for governor.

September 27, 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks Wins Pulitzer Prize

1. Gwendolyn Brooks

   Poet
2. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet and teacher. She was the first black person to win a Pulitzer prize when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her second collection, Annie Allen. 
4. Born: June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kansas, United States
5. Died: December 3, 2000, South Side, Chicago
6. Parents: Keziah Wims, David Anderson Brooks
7. Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, United States Poet Laureate, more
8. Children: Nora Blakely, Henry Lowington Blakely III
   
   

   

   
   

   
   

R.I.P. Benjamin Earl (Ben E.) King (September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015)

Riots - When people react to "abuse of power and lack of opportunity.

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