Rihanna

Rihanna 

Rihanna is an amazing singer, artist, actress, and businesswoman. She sings a lot of different types of genres and has a great voice. She is from Saint Micheal Parish, Barbados. She is inspirational because of her song lyrics and she just tells people to keep pushing forward. This speaks to me because whenever I feel sad I keep in mind that everything will be ok and I need to push forward. She is 31 years old and was born February 20, 1988, and is still alive.  

Tamika D. Mallory

Tamika D. Mallory
Tamika was born in Harlem New York in 1980. Tamika was first influenced by her home community. at a young age. Her parents were members of the Al Sharpton civil rights organization. When Tamika was 11 years old she joined the national action network because she wanted to solve issues that were going on making a change in the world. In 2011 she became the organizations youngest executives producer. when Tamika was 20 tragic event happened. Her son's father passed away by gun violence in 2001. This experience shook Tamika's life. In 2012 another mass shooting happened at the sandy hook elementary school that killed 20 students. Tamika tried to emphasize to create more solutions to gun violence. At the time Barak Obamas advisor said the Tamika was a leader of tomorrow and that motivated Tamika. today Tamika now continues to fight for more just to cure the gun violence in the world.

Jully Black

Jully Black

Jully was born November 8,1977. She is a singer-songwriter,producer and actress. Black played the preacher in the theatre production “Da kink in my hair” at the Princess Of Wales theatre in downtown Ontario. In summer 2007,a new single, “Seven day fool” was released,becoming Black’s first Top 10 hit in Canada. She was chosen by CBC Music

Songs by Jully Black: Seven Day Fool, I traveled, Sweat Of Your Brow, Until I stay, 5 times Love, Material things, DJ Play My Song, The Things You Do, Running, Never Lost My Sight, Stay The Night, Gotta Let You Know, Temporary Insanitary, Hurt U Bad, Just Life, Catch Me When I Fall. Etc (search it up)

Black has about 17 awards and nominations. She also has 4 albums.

Willie O’Ree

Willie O’Ree

Willie O’ree was the first black player in the National Hockey League. He played on the Boston Bruins team. They named their arena Willie O’ree Place after he retired. He retired in 1979. He was born on October 15 ,1935. O'Ree came back in 1961 to play 43 games, and scored 4 goals and 10 assists. His height was 5 ft 10 in tall, his weight is 174 Ib. When he turned 43 he stopped playing hockey.

Harry Winston Jerome

Harry Winston Jerome

A track and field athlete from Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, Born on September 30, 1940. He moved to Winnipeg then British Columbia and then the Vancouver area when he was twelve. He represented Canada in the 1912 summer Olympics. He was forty two years old when he passed away from a brain aneurysm.

People say that when he moved to Vancouver the local residents tried to stop the sale of his house because he and his family were the only black people in the community. In 1962 he suffered an injury so bad that doctors thought he would never walk again. There was a statue made of him in Stanley park in 1988. During his track and field career he set seven world records. He is inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame, Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame. He was also awarded the Order of Canada.

Jackie Robinson by Edna

Jackie Robinson

A Great Black Baseball Player

By Liam

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31st, 1919. Jackie broke the baseball color line when the LA Dodgers put him on first base. He played first base on April 15th, 1947. Robinson had an exceptional 10 years in the MLB. Jackie was inducted in the MLB Hall of Fame. He won rookie of the year award in 1947. The MLB retired his jersey in 1997. Robinson played 6 world series and contributed to the “1955” World Series Champions.Jackie was also the first black MLB player to ever play. Then a new tradition came out “Jackie Robinson Day” which was created on April 15th, 2004. In 1935, Robinson graduated from Washington Junior High School and enrolled at John Muir High School.1945, while Robinson was at Sam Huston College. Robinson Died October 24, 1972. Grandma Edna Rocks

Harriet Tubman

In 1844 Harriet's father was set free from slavery to work as a lumberjack. She saw a suspicious person and started running off the farm land, the person who was in control of the slaves ran after the guy. He ran and ran and ran, the guy hid under a table. The man found the guy under a table and turned, and saw Harriet and asked her to hold the guy, guy slipped out his arms and ran through the door, heading back to the field where all the slaves were. He ran through the door Harriet blocked the doorway, the man grabbed a jar and through it and missed the boy and hit Harriet “BANG”, she fell to the floor. When she woke up her mother was there for the rest of her life she kept having black out. She also saved people from slavery.

Mari Copeny

Mari Copeny

Born on July 6, 2007, in Flint, Michigan.  At the age of 8 she became an an activist at her home town Flint, Michigan. Which she has been fighting a life-threatening water crisis since April 2014. Mari Copeny wrote a letter to President Barack Obama, challenging him to come to her hometown and bear witness to the crisis she and her community faced. She is known for being a young activist and a proof that you’re never too young to be an activist. She said that lots of children like her are getting sick because of the high level of bacteria in their water. Seven months later President Barack Obama funded $100 million to repair Flint’s water system. She has sent out more than over 700,000 water bottles to local families.  Mari says that she believes that skills she’s been developing are getting her ready for the presidency that she has been planning to seek in 2044. The event was very successful and Mari helped over 1,000 Flints student and help them go back to school with the enough supplies they needed.

Moses Walker

Moses Walker is the first baseball African American baseball player. He started playing in the big leagues in the nineteenth century. His nickname was Fleet. There was a contest that was in Louisville but some people didn’t want to play a black person. Most people didn't hide that he was not going to be happy their. Moses didn’t let them get under his skin and played 42 games until he got injured. He played for the Toledos. Moses’s position was a catcher. He was born in 1857 on October 7th. Moses did get paid.He wanted to play baseball even though he knew he was not allowed. He stood up for all people to be able to play baseball. Now anyone can play baseball. One say 3 white men tried to attack Moses so he stabbed one of them, he was sent to court and after was proved guilty and got sent to jail. He was in jail for a year. Moses had 5 other brothers and sisters. Later Moses had three children of his own. Sometimes when Moses would walk out on the field fans would yell mean things and call him names. I picked picked Moses walker because I think it is very hard  to go against the crowd, but did so he could do what he loves.

Lucille Hunter

Black History Month

Lucille Hunter

Lucille hunter was one of the first black women to live in Yukon Territory. When only nineteen she was pregnant and had a Husam named Charles They left Michigan to go to Yukon to start a new life. The Hunters traveled west and stop in Teslin lake to deliver her baby daughter. They named her Teslin after when she was born. After they moved by dogsled to Yukon in February 1898 The family settled outside of Dawson at Bonanza Creek. Lucille helps Charles big for gold while she was carrying baby Teslin. As both black women, Lucille and Teslin were rarely sighted by white people. Where she was living there were estimated to be 3000 white people and only 99 black people. The family later staked claims in silver in Mayo. After Charles died in 1939. In 1942, she moved to Whitehorse and opened a laundry tent. Despite her declining eyesight and eventually becoming blind, Lucille stayed fiercely independent by living in a small clapboard house. Eventually, her house burned down; however, she recovered from her burns and lived in a basement apartment for several more years until she broke her hip.  Spending the rest of her time in a hospital, she died in 1973 at age 94. Being one of the first black women in Yukon.

Donavan bailey

Donavan bailey I picked this person because of I that it was really cool  click the link below to learn more

Donovan Bailey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954, in the countryside of Mississippi. Her career started as a journalist in 1971 when she registered to a college in Tennessee! When Oprah was in her early twenties she joined her college radio station. A few years later she was the first black women TV reporter in Nashville. When she graduated college, she moved to Baltimore Maryland to host her first talk show at the age of twenty-four! When she started the talk show she was criticized for her energetic presence on the show. But in 1983 she became the host of a thirty-minute talk show in Chicago, Illinois. When Oprah showed her real personality her talk show earned a higher ranking. When Oprah was thirty-two the Oprah Winfrey show made its national debut and made her the first black woman to host a syndicated talk show. Oprah wanted to discuss on the talk show the issues that have not been discussed in anyways. In one of Oprah’s shows, she revealed that she was a survivor of abuse since the age of nine! Using her own experience she used her experience to raise awareness and give people that survived this horrible thing a voice. She also used her talk show to take action for kids everywhere. In 1993 she became the main voice Of the national children protection act, also known as “the Oprah bill”.

Rosa Parks

Jahmani Swanson

Jahmani Swanson Is the person who I chose to do for black history month and click the link below for more information.


Jahmani Swanson

Moses Walker

Moses Walker

Moses Walker was born in October 7, 1857 in Mount Pleasant in Ohio. Moses was the fifth of six children. His dad was a physician and his mother was a midwife. Oberlin College excepted Moses in fall 1878. In 1881 he played in all 5 baseball games with the baseball team at Oberlin. Moses was an American professional baseball catcher he is most remembered as being the first black man to play in a major baseball league. Moses played in a minor league until 1889. His brother Weldy became the second African American athlete to play in a major baseball league. Half way through 1883 left his studies all the way in Michigan and was able to receive his first ever professional baseball contract with William Voltz he was the manager  of a major league Toledo Blue Stockings a Northwestern league team. Unfortunately Moses Fleetwood Walker passed at his Cleveland home on May 11 1924 due to Lobar Pneumonia having to do with his lungs. If there is to little oxygen in your blood your body cells can’t work properly anymore and have a very high chance of death.  

 

Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)

Pele

Pele started playing professional soccer in 1955. When he was only 15 he was in the World cup. He was the youngest black person to play in the World cup. He was born October 23, 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Pele is the most scored soccer player to this day with an astounding 1281 goals in his entire carrier. He was also the creator of the famous bicycle kick. He changed the perspective for soccer to let black people play with everyone forever.

Colin Kaepernick

Black History Month

Colin Kaepernick

Rihanna almost got to sing in the super bowl in 2019 but she turned it down because she was not happy about the team kicking Colin Kaepernick off the team because he kneels during the national anthem. She even tried to get him in the halftime show but they declined. Colin Kaepernick is a great man, And people don’t like him and make fun of him for kneeling during the national anthem for standing up for his rights to let people hear his voice. They kicked Colin off the team because he was kneeling and in my opinion that is just fine, he is trying to get his voice heard.  Most people think that is disrespectful but it’s not. Just because people think that it's disrespectful to kneel. But people don’t know what he has been going through and they haven't been him before. So they don’t know what he feels. He is now in the war with the NFL because they turned him down. His buddy tried to  buy one of the NFL teams so that he would coach the team and prove to them who is better. But the NFL totally blackmailed him. In my opinion I think people are just being stupid and making up excuses. But you never know what he will do next. In my opinion i think that he is sometimes nice but I've never met him so I don’t know. All I know is that he donated one million dollars to something and it was weird.   

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Donald Glover

Childish Gambino

Donald Glover

The Person that I chose to do is Donald Glover.

     Click The link below to learn and see more about this African American Icon.

                                                                    Donald Glover

Come check out my black history month project on Portia White.
She has a very interesting history.
Portia White

Chloe Cooley

Chloe Cooley

Chloe Cooley was a enslave in upper Canada, she was born in 1759 and passed away on January 21, 1831. Her owner was, Sergeant Adam Vrooman, he forcibly tied Chloe to a boat, She refused to get on the boat, so Sergeant Adam Vrooman had to get two other white men to tie her down and make sure she never escaped the boat. When they reached the U.S.A where she was going to be sold, a free black man heard her screams and reported it to Lieutenant-Governor. After she got sold she was beat and forced to work day and night and she was never seen again.

Jesse Owens

My person I studied Jesse Owens take a look here:

Jesse Owens

Bruni Surin

BRUNY SURIN

                                           By jm morales  

                        

BRUNY SURINS IS A CANADIAN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE WINNER OF A GOLD MEDAL IN THE 4x100 METRES RELAY AT THE SUMMER OLYMPICS.IN 2008.HE WAS EDUCATED INTO CANADA'S SPORT HALL OF FAME AS PART OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS 4x400 RELAY TEAM. IN THE 100 METRES,HE HAS BROKEN THE 10 SECOND BARRIER MULTIPLE TIMES AND HOLD A PERSONAL RECORD OF 9.87 SECONDARILY BORN IN -HAITIAN AND MOVE TO CANADA WITH HIS FAMILY IN 1995.He HIS DEBUT ON CANADA AT THE AMERICA GAMES PLACING FIFTH  THE LONG JUMP,A RESULT HE REPEATED AT 1988 OLYMPICS.AFTER OLYMPICS GAMES IN SEOUL IN 1988,MANAGER INRECO DIONISIS BROUGHT SURIN TO SIENA AND HE WAS TRAINED BY ITALIAN COACH BARRUCCI.

Pelè

Pelè

Pelè started playing pro soccer in 1955. When he was 15 he played for Santos and after he showed how amazing he was technical with the ball and skill full he got moved up to play in the world cup with Brazil and he won the world cup many times after he joined. Pele grew up playing soccer with no shoes and the ball was a ball of socks. When Pelè was young he promised his dad he would win the world cup for him and he kept that promise and won the world cup just for his dad

Alexander.M.Lincoln

      Lincoln .M. Alexander

Lincoln, M, Alexander was born in 1922, in Toronto. He also fought in the world war and he was serving the royal air force for 3 years and he was the lieutenant governor and at the end of the war he went to get an education in two different schools in the first one he graduated in Arts, and the second was in Toronto Osgoode Hall school of law which is where he passed the bar examination in 1965.

Mr. Alexander was appointed to become a Queen’s Counsel and he became a partner in the  Hamilton law firm from 1963 to 1979. He was also the first black person to be a member for the parliament in 1968 and he served in the of Commons for 12 years and he was also serving the federal Minister of Labour in 1979 1980. In 1985 Lincoln .M. Alexander became Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor and he was also the first member in the visible minority to serve the Queen in Canada. During his terms in his office, which ended in 1991, and youth and his educations were hallmarks of his mandate. Let's skip ahead to when he became a Companion of the order of Canada and he was also an in the order of Ontario, in 1992, in 2006, and he was named the greatest Hamilton of all time and 6 years later he died on October 19,2012 at age 90 :(. The end.

Fuhr Him

This is about Grant Fuhr go check out the slide below


Fuhr Him

Willie Mays

Willie Mays was a black American Baseball player from Westfield Alabama. Back then in the 1960s black people didn’t have the same rights as white people. He was a very good baseball player that won a rookie of the year in 1951 and has won 12 gold glove awards, Two NL MVPs and a worlds series and many more awards in his career. He
played for the San Francisco Giants for the longest time, then played with the New York Mets. The position he played was center-field. His batting average was .302, he had 660 home runs, 3,283 hits, 338 stolen bases and 1,903 RBI’s. Right now he is currently 87 years old. He was born: (May 6, 1931). His nickname was “The Say Hey Kid”. He was black, but he proved and showed the MLB that he was one of the best players in MLB history and he also made it to the hall of fame. He played 22 MLB seasons and was elected to the hall of fame in 1979, and his number (24) was retired by the  San Francisco Giants. In the 1940s black people were not allowed to play baseball and Willie Mays was still in the MLB when that was still going around.

I was interested in the first black Olympic volleyball player. If you want to check my slideshow out, click here!

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