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Snow Affecting Some School Schedules                         Thursday, January 24, 2013 Public School System Delays and Closings for January 24, 2013  Updated  6:30 a.m. SCHOOL SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT ALLEGANY COUNTY ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 2 hour delay; no half day programs BALTIMORE CITY 2 hour delay; adminstrative offices open on time BALTIMORE COUNTY   2 hour delay; no […]

(1927 – 2003) Althea Gibson was named “Famed Athlete of the Year,” becoming the first Black female athlete to be honored on this date  January 23,1958 .      

(1915- 1984) Rev. C.L. Franklin, activist, minister, gospel singer, and father of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin,was born in Mississippi on January 22, 1915.

What started off as a boring football game (to someone who may not watch football) turned into a BIG event when the Baltimore Ravens beat the Patriots 28-13. This is The Ravens first Super Bowl in 12 years, thanks to three touchdown passes from Joe Flacco and a defense led by Ray Lewis. Next up […]

Happy Founders day to Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. The organization was founded January  16th, 1920 at Howard University. The motto of the Sorority  is  “Scholarship, Sisterly Love, Service, Finer Womanhood.” HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY ZETA’s !

  Happy Founders day to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The organization was founded January  15th, 1908 at Howard University. The motto of the Sorority  is  “By Culture and By Merit.” HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY AKA’s !

Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. Baptist minister and civil  rights, activist, was born in Atlanta, GA. January 15, 1929. Dr. King led the first mass civil rights movement in the United States.   

Happy Founders day to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated. The organization was founded January  9th, 1914 at Howard University. The founders of the Phi Beta Sigma Inc. were A.Langston Taylor, Charles I.Brown, and Leonard F. Morse The motto of the Fraternity is “Culture For Service, and Service for Humanity.” HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY SIGMAS !

    ( 1903 – 1946 ) Countee Cullen, poet, died on January 9,1946. Cullen was a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance” . Cullen was a 42-year old French teacher at a Harlem public school at the time of his death.     

(1913 – 1980 ) “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”