1925 - Marcus Garvey is sent to federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia for

mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in his Black

Star Line. His prosecution was vigorously advocated by several

prominent African American leaders, including Robert Sengstacke

Abbott and others. Garvey was railroaded because of the power

he had amassed over the African American population of America.


1968 - Highway Patrol Officers kill three South Carolina State

University students during a demonstration in Orangeburg,

South Carolina. Students are protesting against a whites-only

Orangeburg bowling alley.



1986 - Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host

a nationally syndicated talk show.



1995 - The U.N. Security Council approves sending 7,000 peacekeepers

to Angola to cement an accord ending 19 years of civil war.

IN celebration of Black History Month 2008, the life of
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou’s Childhood

Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, with the given name Marguerite Johnson. Her parents divorced when she was a young child, so Angelou and her brother went to live in Stamps, Arkansas with their paternal grandmother. After Angelou and her brother returned to St. Louis to live with their mother, Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend when she was seven-years old. As a result, she went through a period where she refused to speak. Angelou and her brother returned to Stamps to live with their grandmother.


In 1940, Angelou moved to San Francisco to live with her mother. In high school, she won a scholarship to the California Labor School for dance and drama. Shortly after graduating from high school, Angelou’s son, Clyde “Guy” Johnson was born in 1945. While trying support herself, she took on work as a waitress, a madam of two prostitutes, and attempted to enlist in the United States Army, but was turned down.

Maya Angelou Becomes an Entertainer
In the 1950s, Angelou worked as a dancer in the production of Porgy and Bess, which toured to 22 countries throughout Europe and Asia. In the late 1950s she moved to New York where she appeared in the off Broadway play, Calypso Heatwave (1957).


In 1961, Angelou moved to Egypt after marrying Vusumzi Make, a South African dissident. After divorcing in 1963, she moved to Ghana where she worked as a teacher at the music and drama school at the University of Ghana. She returned to the United States in 1966, and wrote Black, Blues, Black, a ten-part television series that was broadcast by National Educational Television in 1968.
Maya Angelou’s Writing Career

In 1970, Angelou published her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which chronicled the first seventeen years of her life. The book received critical acclaim, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She wrote four other autobiographical books: Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986).

Critical Acclaim for Maya Angelou

Besides writing books, Angelou continued performing. For her performance in Look Away (1975), she was nominated for a Tony Award, and she received an Emmy nomination for her role in Alex Haley’s miniseries Roots (1977).

Angelou has also received critical acclaim for her poetry. In 1971, she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie. Her other published poetry includes, And Still I Rise (1978), Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987), and I Shall Not Be Moved (1990).

Angelou has received 50 honorary degrees from various colleges. In 1981, she was appointed as a professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1925 - Marcus Garvey is sent to federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia for
mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in his Black
Star Line. His prosecution was vigorously advocated by several
prominent African American leaders, including Robert Sengstacke
Abbott and others. Garvey was railroaded because of the power
he had amassed over the African American population of America.
1968 - Highway Patrol Officers kill three South Carolina State
University students during a demonstration in Orangeburg,
South Carolina. Students are protesting against a whites-only
Orangeburg bowling alley.
1986 - Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host
a nationally syndicated talk show.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council approves sending 7,000 peacekeepers
to Angola to cement an accord ending 19 years of civil war.
Did anything happened in Bahamian history today...be it white black or yellow?

Did anything happened in Bahamian history today...be it white black or yellow?Yup one more murda.

Yup one more murda.
shakes head...
shame

Yup one more murda.Rockwell, that was a valid question from Frog... I think we can seach the answer to that... Let's celebrate....

Did anything happened in Bahamian history today...be it white black or yellow?

Alim pickings, apparently ...

Dr. Perry Gomez gets credit for building the innovative AIDS ward at PMH:
http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art25416.html (2005)

RIP Anna Nicole smith (2007)

Alim pickings, apparently ...
Dr. Perry Gomez gets credit for building the innovative AIDS ward at PMH:
http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art25416.html (2005)
RIP Anna Nicole smith (2007)
Kuddoes to my good, good cousin...
You go Perry Gomez...
At least we have one good Perry in the Bahamas.
Thanks cerasee!

Who D-hell is "Alim pickings"?

Alim pickings, apparently ...

Dr. Perry Gomez gets credit for building the innovative AIDS ward at PMH:
http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art25416.html (2005)

RIP Anna Nicole smith (2007)
Thanks cerasee.. This is VERY GOOD TO KNOW!!! In times like these it is good to know that the Bahamas is really facilitating a decrease in the amount of unborn children of this generation being passed on the AIDS virus from their mothers!!!!

Kuddoes to my good, good cousin...
You go Perry Gomez...
At least we have one good Perry in the Bahamas.
Thanks cerasee!

you fambly to dr. perry? my good friend, may she rest in peace, spent a good amount of time in that AIDS ward. i cried like a baby trying to thank him for doing such a good job!!!!