today in black history

June 15, 2026

Keyboard prodigy Errol Garner, a jazz artist who composed and played music by ear, was born on this date in 1923 in Pittsburgh.

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POSTED: March 29, 2012, 12:00 am

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the historic 1972 Gary, Indiana national Black political convention that set the stage for the presidential campaigns of Shirley Chisholm, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the eventual election of Barack Obama to the presidency.





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