today in black history

October 11, 2025

Pianist Art Blakey, leader of the "Jazz Messengers" and mentor to jazz artists, is born in 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Today in Black America: 08.18.09

With Brette Dawson

POSTED: August 18, 2009, 5:26 pm

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