Fake Black History Month Fact(ish-like Thing) #10
The Desegregation of Dungeons & DragonsAfter discovering he did not have the eye-hand coordination necessary for any physical sport known to man,young Daryl Tupelo found himself a lightning rod of controversy when, during a lunch period at his middle school, he asked a group of similarly lambasted ( Read more... )

The Fake Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #9
The First Black Moving CompanyDetroit, 1972 ( Read more... )

The late-on-purpose requisite Fake Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #8
The Founder of Colored People’s Time1866. Toby Masterson, an Alabama field slave, worked for three consecutive days past the announced date of the abolishment of slavery. While he was largely applauded by his former slave masters for his tireless work ethic, Masterson ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #7
The First Black Shakespearean Method ActorJuly, 1971. Roger Tuggle became the first black Shakespearean method actor when, after being arrested during a pronounced fight with a white prostitute outside the C&S Lounge, told the police that he was not fighting with the woman, but was in fact researching a ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #6
The Original ShortyIn June 1997 Davina “Lil Nap” Jones arrived at a Chicago-area family birthday party at the invitation of her cousin. The diminutive Jones, clocking in at 3 feet 2 inches barefoot, soon discovered that not everyone at the party was “fam” already aware of her condition. Turning a ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #5
The Silent Cinema AvengerWilliam Sykes made both black and cinema history in 1989 when, during a second-week showing of "Do The Right Thing", he was the first black person to shush a black heckler of a film into stunned silence. While the theater only had a total audience of five people, two of them stood ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #4
The First Post-Graduate Hiring of a Black Studies Major in his FieldIn August 1987 William Bennings , a graduate of Temple Univeristy’s Black Studies program, showed the world that acquiring a BA in BS need not resign one to an essentially liberal arts tract of post-graduate career choices. After months ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #3
The Official Dismantling of Black MachismoIn August of 2007, Junebug Biggums, upon learning that R&B chanteuse Marsha Ambrosius’s deal with seminal hip-hop label Aftermath Records dissolved with no album to be released, broke down at a family cookout in tears and a great gnashing of teeth. This lone act ( Read more... )

Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #2
The 2011 Desegregation of Trains’N’ThangsMarch 15, 2011, Des Moines, Iowa ( Read more... )

2012 Black History Month Fact(ish-like thing) #1
The Great School Lunch Debate of 2010October 15, 2010, Oakland, California ( Read more... )