Welcome Hot105 family. We want to thank you and show you appreciation by sharing with you what Black History has meant to us. Over the next month, as well much like the 365 days of the year, we will portray and pay tribute to African American Men & Women who have given their lives in support to the rights of African Americans both domestically and abroad.

Join us on this historical journey as we diligently give thanks to our heroes & sheroes of the African American culture.

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Feb 22nd - Clarence E. Sasser: Military Professional
Born Clarence Eugene Sasser in Chenango, Texas, on September 12th, 1947. Sasser was drafted into the United States Army in 1967 after giving up his college deferment. By the fall of 1967, Sasser was in Vietnam with the Army's 9th Infantry Division. Read more



Feb 19th - 2008 Arthur Ashe Courage Award
See the Video of Tommie Smith and John Carlos and the 2008 Arthur Ashe Courage Award.


Feb 18th - Joseph Hatchett
Joseph Hatchett was born in Clearwater, Florida in 1932. His mother worked as a prostitute and his father was a cotton picker. Hatchett rose from these working class beginnings to become the first black man elected to the Florida Supreme Court. Read More





Feb 17th - Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment
The U.S. government's 40-year experiment on black men with syphilis. For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. Read more



Feb 16th - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811–96, American novelist and humanitarian, b. Litchfield, Conn. With her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stirred the conscience of Americans concerning slavery and thereby influenced the course of American history. Read more




Feb 15th - The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1856–57. It involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott, a black slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise. Read more



Feb 12th - Harlem Globetrotters
See a video biography about the Harlem Globetrotters here!





Feb 11th - Ester Rolle
Actress. Born on November 8, 1922, in Pompano Beach, Florida. A stage, film, and television actress, Esther Rolle is best remembered as Florida Evans, a sharp, but caring housekeeper—a character she played on two comedy series Maude and Good Times. One of eighteen children, she was the daughter of Bahamian immigrants. Rolle was a student at several colleges, including Hunter College in New York City. Read More!


Feb 10th - The Harlem Renaissance
The end of the American Civil War in 1865 ushered in an era of increased education and employment opportunities for black Americans. This created the first black middle class in America, and its members began expecting the same lifestyle afforded to white Americans. But in 1896, racial equality was delivered a crushing blow when the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case declared racial segregation to be constitutionally acceptable. This created even harsher conditions for African-Americans, particularly in some Southern states that sought to minimize the equality that former slaves and their descendants might aspire toward. The South also became gradually more and more economically depressed as boll weevils began to infest cotton crops. This reduced the amount of labor needed in the South. Read more!

Feb 9th - Angela Bassett
Actress. Born August 16, 1958, in New York City. Bassett was raised with her sister, D'nette, in St. Petersburg, Florida by her single mother, Betty, a social worker. On a high school trip, she became inspired to act after seeing a Kennedy Center production of Of Mice and Men, starring James Earl Jones. Read more!





Feb 8th - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Prizefighter. Born May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. In 1966, at the height of his boxing career, Carter was wrongly convicted—twice—of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. During the mid-1970s, his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders, politicians, and entertainers. He was ultimately exonerated, in 1985, after a United States district court judge declared the convictions to be based on racial prejudice. Read more!




Feb 5th - The History Of Slavery In America
See a video about the History of Slavery in America
See it here




Feb 4th - Mary M. Bethune-Cookman Educator & Civil Rights Activist
Believing that education provided the key to racial advancement, she founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Florida (1904), which through her persistent direction as president (1904–42) became Bethune-Cookman College (1929). Read more.




Feb 3rd - CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866: The First Lady of Jazz
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude. Read More




Feb 2nd - ELLA FITZGERALD: The First Lady of Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald was one of the most notable singers of the 20th century, and a significant artist in the emergence of jazz. She was dubbed “The First Lady of Jazz” for her mainstream popularity and unparalleled vocal talents. Her unique ability for mimicking instrumental sounds helped popularize the vocal improvisation of “scatting,” which became her signature technique. Read More




Feb 1st - DR CARTER G. WOODSON
Founder of Black History Month
Read More

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