Heavenly birthday wishes Simeon Booker! Born August 27, 1918, Simeon Saunders Booker Jr. was an African-American journalist whose work appeared in leading news publications for more than 50 years. He was known for his journalistic works during the civil rights movement and for his coverage of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. He also was the first African American full-time journalist for the Washington Post. He died in 2017. He authored two works:
Belated happy birthday Farai Chideya! Born July 27, Farai Chideya is an African American novelist, multimedia journalist, and radio host. Farai states: “I listen critically to stories about our human journey, and track the data on people, governments, and our global society.” Here are a few of her works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Ida B. Wells-Barnett! Born July 16, 1892, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She died in 1931. Some of her notable works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Les Payne! Born July 12, 1941, Les Payne was an African American journalist. He served as an editor and columnist at Newsday and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. Posthumously, he was awarded the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Prior to the Malcolm X book, he co-wrote The Life and Death of the SLA in 1976. He died in 2018.
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Gertrude Bustill Mosell! Born July 3, 1855, Gertrude Bustill Mosell was an African American journalist, author, teacher, and activist. She served as the women’s editor of The New York Age from 1885 to 1889, and of the Indianapolis World from 1891 to 1892. Her foundational work, The Works of the Afro-American Woman in 1894, looked into the future to project women’s roles in the twentieth century, particularly in suffrage, journalism and higher education. She died in 1948.
Belated birthday wishes Joan Morgan! Born May 25, Joan Morgan is a Jamaican-American author and journalist. Joan Morgan coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in 1999 with the publication of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, which is now studied at colleges across the country. She is currently the program director of the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU.
Tonight, ESPN will air 30 for 30 on Stuart Scott, a sports journalist who influenced/impacted sports reporting in his own unique style. Here is his autobiography.
Charlotta Spears Bass was a newspaper publisher-editor and civil rights activist. She was also the first African American woman to run for the U.S. Vice President under the Progressive Party ticket. Read more about this revolutionary woman below.
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/bass.html
Women of the West: http://theautry.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/bass_full.html
Black Past.org: http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/bass-charlotta-1879-1969
Black History Now: http://blackhistorynow.com/charlotta-bass/
Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2874200015.html
Ethel Payne, journalist, is March 6 Woman of the Day. Read about this pioneer woman below.
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ethel-paynefirst-lady-of-the-black-pressasked-questions-no-one-else-would/2011/08/02/gIQAJloFBJ_story.html
Black History Now: http://blackhistorynow.com/ethel-l-payne/
American National Biography Online: http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03900.html
HarperCollins Publisher: Book about Ethel Payne: http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062198853/eye-on-the-struggle
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