Quote from Award-Winning Author Alice Walker on #WorldPurpleDay (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today, on World Purple Day (which began in 2008 to increase awareness around epilepsy), we share a quote from Pulitzer Prize and…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today, on World Purple Day (which began in 2008 to increase awareness around epilepsy), we share a quote from Pulitzer Prize and…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today we celebrate the one and only Aretha Franklin, who was born 80 years ago #OnThisDay. Franklin, whose voice was…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We celebrate grassroots organizer, civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in today’s Daily Drop podcast. Our salute to Mississippi…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We celebrate the iconic, internationally famous entertainer Josephine Baker in today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast with some history along with her humorously clever…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Tuesday, March 22 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar…
by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) In honor of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee‘s 65th birthday yesterday, we’re celebrating the music from his movies in today’s Music…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) On #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first African American writers to celebrate Black speech and…
According to nbcnews.com, the United States House of Representatives passed the CROWN Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination on Friday. Measure H.R. 2116 passed 235-189 in a vote…
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is a bonus episode about rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe who was born #OnThisDay in 1915,…