Digital Transformation Could Help Black Banks Survive and Not Surrender

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Digital Transformation Could Help Black Banks Survive and Not Surrender

A growing number of consumers are using technology to do their banking and handle their personal business. For Black-owned banks, a digital transformation of banking services is essential.

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Charles Randolph Uncles became the first Black priest ordained in the United States on this day in Baltimore, Maryland

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Davy, Gloria (1931-2012)

Gloria Davy, a rich-voiced (lirico-spinto) soprano who “sang for the sheer joy of singing” had a four decade career as a concert singer. Early in her career she replaced Leontyne Price as Bess in the 1954 international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1958 she broke color barriers when she

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283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores

On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The

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18

1827

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at

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Feb

12

1865

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassinated

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (46), thirty-fifth president of the United States, assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

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22

1963

Marian Anderson

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10

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Feb

11

1958

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

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19

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Booker T. Washington

Born: 4/5/856 Hales FordDied: /4/95 Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 890 and 95, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last

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1919

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960, Hollywood Walk

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Daniel Hale Williams

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(1959) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses the NAACP Convention on the Organization's 50th Anniversary

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19

1959

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3

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12

1793

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Olajuwon, Hakeem

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4

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