Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks died on this day in 2000. She was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer.
On this date in 1847, Frederick Douglass, with support of other anti-slavery advocates such as Dr. Martin R. Delaney, began publication of the North Star. This paper’s slogan was “Right is of no sex--Truth is of no color--God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren”.
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