today in black history

November 16, 2025

Blues composer William Christopher “W.C.” Handy, known as the “Father of the Blues,” was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873.

VIDEO: From The Bottom Up

POSTED: July 01, 2009, 5:00 pm

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Darrin Sharif talks about being in the neighborhood and in the streets affecting change from the bottom up

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