Circus performer, champion boxer, first ever African American combat pilot, club owner, Jazz artist, and spy. Eugene Bullard was one of the coolest men to ever live.
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Eugene Jacques Bullard and the Paris Jazz Age (Pt. 2)
<p>After World War I ended, Eugene Jacques Bullard returned to Paris. He worked as a jazz drummer and nightclub owner, and as the tensions that led to World War II loomed, as an intelligence agent for France. </p> <p><strong>Research:</strong></p> <ul> <li>"Bullard, Eugene." Ency ... Show More
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Top Hollywood Director Crystle Roberson, directed episodes of Black Mafia Family (STARZ), The Gilded Age for HBO, Greenleaf (OWN), All American (CW), Diary of a Future President (Disney+), American Soul (BET), Long Slow Exhale (Paramount),
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CP Time: Black Superhero History, from Comic Strips to Movie Screens
Falcon, War Machine, Cyborg, and most famously, Black Panther. Roy Wood Jr. dives into the history of Black superheroes, from their first appearance in 1936 to the modern heroes we know and love today.
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Mar 2024
The World's Strongest Man
Rerun: Edward Lawrence Levy, a bald and bespectacled 40 year old choir-master from Birmingham, became the first ever winner of an international weightlifting contest at Cafe Monaco in London on 28th March, 1891.
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