Help Spread
Article List
Filter by category:
All categories
People
Events
International
Organizations
Awards and Recognition
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
AP Abourne ~
(inventor) awarded patent for refining coconut oil
Views:
7149 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Bill Cosby ~
(entertainer) receives an Emmy Award for "I Spy"
Views:
5221 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
10/17/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Bishop Desmond Tutu ~
(South African activist) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Views:
4462 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Carter G Woodson ~
(the father of Black history) awarded Spingarn Medal
Views:
5871 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
12/1/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Charles Johnson ~
is honored with the "National Book Award" for his fictional book, Middle Passage
Views:
3922 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
10/6/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Derek Walcott ~
becomes the first Black person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Views:
4937 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Dorie Miller ~
(a messman) awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic deeds at Pearl Harbor
Views:
4478 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
9/15/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche ~
becomes first Black Nobel Peace Prize winner
Views:
5219 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
EM Bannister ~
(African painter) exhibits
Under The Oaks at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelpha and is awarded the gold med ...
Views:
5160 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
11/13/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Gloria Naylor ~
(writer) wins the "Lillian Smith Award" for Mama Day, her novel
Views:
3918 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Gwendolyn Brooks ~
becomes the first Black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize, for Annie Allen
Views:
3646 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Gwendolyn Brooks ~
(poet and first Black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize) born
Views:
3512 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
1/19/2008,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Hank Aaron ~
(baseball player) receives the 60th NAACP Spingarn Medal
Views:
3918 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
9/15/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Jackie Robinson ~
is named National League "Rookie of the Year"
Views:
3653 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
12/16/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Koffi Atta Annan ~
becomes the first Black Secretary General for the United Nations
Views:
3359 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
2/16/2008,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Lauryn Hill ~
(R&B and hip hop singer) wins five Grammy Awards, the most a woman had ever received
Views:
5307 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Leontyne Price ~
(world renowed opera singer) is awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Views:
3443 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
1/4/2011,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Martin Luther King Jr ~
(activist and civil rights leader) awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Views:
3776 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Michael Jackson ~
(musician) wins eight grammy awards
Views:
4945 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Pvt Milton L Olive III ~
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously
Views:
3870 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Ralph J Bunche ~
becomes the first Black person awarded a Nobel Peace Prize
Views:
4580 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
9/9/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Roots the mini-series ~
won 9 awards at the 19th Annual Emmys
Views:
4347 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
11/13/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Rosa Parks ~
is honored by the Wonder Woman Foundation with the first "Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award"
Views:
3380 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Roy deCarava ~
(first Black American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship) born
Views:
4229 times
Rating:
0
Posted by:
default, on
8/5/2007,
in category "Awards and Recognition"
On this date:
Tommie Smith and John Carlos ~
While being awarded the gold and bronze medals, respectively, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raise their gloved fists on ...
Views:
4719 times
Rating:
0
Follow Us
Tweets sent by site