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5 hours ago · By Scott Detrow , Brittany Luse. Published June 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM EDT. Listen • 6:16. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition ...
5 hours ago · Brittany Luse is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, and cultural critic. She is the host of It's Been a Minute and For Colored Nerds. Previously Luse hosted The Nod and Sampler podcasts, and co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show. She's written for Vulture and Harper's Bazaar, among others ...
1 day ago · 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons; its first African-American director Carl B. Stokes: Alpha Omega: Mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major US city Louis Stokes: Alpha Omega: First African-American Congressman from Ohio; civil rights lawyer; 51st Laurel Wreath Laureate John F. Street: Philadelphia (PA) Alumni
1 day ago · Mamie Shields Pyle(1866–1949) – suffrage leader in South Dakota. H. Anna Quinby(1871-1931), editor-in-chief of the only woman suffrage paper in Ohio owned and controlled by women; president of the paper's publishing company. Jeannette Rankin(1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana.
1 day ago · The Shaw Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Art and Science Museum showcase varied arts. LASM also includes science exhibits and a planetarium. Other museums include the LSU Museum of Natural Science and the USS Kidd. The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum chronicles the progression and growth of African-Americans.
3 hours ago · United States 1803–present. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds on both sides of the Mississippi River. Their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 to 1500.
1 day ago · Dutch Voight (1888–1986), gang leader in Galveston. Tex Watson (born 1945), convicted murderer, former member of the Charles Manson "Family". Cameron Todd Willingham (1968–2004), convicted and executed for the murder of his children; verdict has been challenged. Susan Wright (born 1976), convicted murderer.
