Hip-Hop Fraternity CEO James C.B Gray being interviewed on the Breakfast Club alongside @realpimpken_ and @mykfresh speaking about our HHF curriculum,the Hip Hop Fraternity Political Action Committee,the Hip Hop Pension Plan and other resources that we provide for our members 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
On this date May 15th in the year 1918 the Battle of Henry johnson took place.William Henry Johnson was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I.On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 15, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a posthumous ceremony at the White House.
In 2002, the U.S. Army awarded Johnson the nation's second-highest military honor, the Distinguished Service Cross. Still, New York State Senator Chuck Schumer and other Johnson supporters continued their dedicated campaign to win Johnson the recognition they felt he deserved, and had been denied solely because of the color of his skin.
With dozens of bullet and shrapnel wounds, he knew he was lucky to have survived. His discharge records erroneously made no mention of his injuries, and so Johnson was denied not only a Purple Heart, but a disability allowance as well.
In 1918, the French awarded Johnson with a Croix de guerre with star and bronze palm. He was the first U.S. soldier in World War I to receive that honor.Johnson died, poor and in obscurity, in 1929. There was a long struggle to achieve awards for him from the U.S. military. He was finally awarded the Purple Heart in 1996.
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On this date May 14th in the year 1995 Myrlie Evers-Williams,Widow of slain Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers,was sworn in as head of the NAACP.
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On this date may 13th in the year 1891 Isaac Murphy,an African American Hall of Fame Jockey won his 3rd Kentucky Durby astride (Kingman) the only horse owned by an African American to ever win the Kentucky Durby!!!!Isaac Murphy was also the only Jockey to ever win the Kentucky Durby,the Kentucky Oats and the Clark Handicap all in the same year and still holds an amazing track record that has never been beat.
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On this date May 12th in the year 1862 Robert Smalls and seven other slaves took control of CSS Planter "a Confederate Armed Military Ship" Robert Smalls learned how to pilot the ship by watching the Captain do it and he successfuly piloted the ship past five confederate forts that guarded the harbor,he then picked up his family and the families of the other seven slaves,then he sailed the ship to the union blockade,which was about to open fire on the ship until he hoisted the white flag in surrender.He turned over the ship and all of its ammunition to the Union Soldiers and him and all the slaves were set free.Robert Smalls went on to meet President Abraham Lincoln,who was so impressed with his knowledge of the confederate territory that he honored him. #robertsmalls
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On this date May 11th in the year 1892, Alonzo "Lonnie" Clayton rode in and won the Kentucky Derby where he recorded a time of 2:41.50. Riding Azra, he also set a record as the youngest rider to win the prestigious race.
Throughout Clayton’s remarkable career, he won other major races including the Champagne Stakes (1891), Jerome Handicap (1891), Clark Handicap (1892, 1897), Travers Stakes (1892), Monmouth Handicap (1893), Kentucky Oaks (1894, 1895) and the Arkansas Derby (1895).
Clayton retired to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1904 where he bought a prominent home known now as the Engelberger House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Clayton lived his final years in California and died on March 17, 1917 He is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
Happy Mother's day to all of the Mother's around the world,especially my Mother💕💞💝💗💕💟💞💖💝💕💗💝💞💞💝💕💓💟❣💝💞💗💖💕
On this date May 10th in the year 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first Democratically elected state President of South Africa.
As president, Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights violations under apartheid and introduced numerous initiatives designed to improve the living standards of South Africa’s Black population.
In 1996, he presided over the enactment of a new South African constitution. Mandela retired from politics in June 1999 at the age of 80. He was succeeded as president by Thabo Mbeki of the ANC, but remained a global advocate for peace and social justice until his death in December 2013.
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On this day May 9th in the year 1750 a South Carolina slave named Caesar Norman was granted his freedom and an annuity of $100 a year for the rest of his life in exchange for his cures for poisons,viruses,poisonous plants and poison snake bites.Caesar Norman was one of the earliest known African American Medical Practitioners,and later was given the name Dr. Caesar Norman!!!!
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