Born in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, Nat King Cole began his musical career when he began the piano at the age of four. He continued to play the piano for his Baptist church and received classical piano...
By Madie Miller
Former slave and inventor of the gas mask, traffic signal and a hair straightening preparation, Garrett Augustus Morgan was an African American inventor and community leader. He lived...
By Lucy Blair
Mahalia Jackson, the song bird from God. The Queen of Gospel, the background to the civil rights movement in America. Perhaps even the first successful African American gospel singer. Jackson...
Students Producing Innovative Theatre, also known as SPIT, puts on their productions of student-directed one-act plays "Variations on a Theme" and "The Werewolf and His Problems" today and tomorrow. Here's...
By Hilah Kohen
I enjoy nothing more than a trip to my grandmother's house. However, like many of my classmates, I don't just go over the river and through the woods to get there. Two weeks ago, my parents,...
Watch the top ranked West High boys basketball team defeat the City High Little Hawks 70-34. West has won the last two Class 4A state titles, and has now gone 60 straight games undefeated.
By Danial Syed
From humble beginnings, tennis player Arthur Ashe earned worldwide renown. Born in 1943, he was forbidden from playing football (his father thought he was too skinny), so he took to...
Patricia Bath is known for her many accomplishments in the ophthalmology field. One of the most prominent however, is that she was the first African American to complete residency in ophthalmology in 1973.
At...
The first hip hop song traces all the way back to 1980, when the song “Rapper’s Delight,” by The Sugarhill Gang came out. This song was just the beginning of a long era of all types of rap and hip...
Claiming to give America its own kind of music, Duke Ellington filled the country with jazz in the 1940’s. But what made Ellington different than most other jazz musicians? Well, Ellington used his music...
The Clara Ward Singers are a famous gospel group that took over Hollywood in the 1950’s. This group opened many doors for the gospel music industry. They were the first to perform in Las Vegas hotels,...
