Black History Month: Josephine Baker

By: Lydia Reagan ~Feature Editor~ Josephine Baker was born as Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri on June 3, 1903. Born into a working class family, she grew up…

Black History Month: George Washington Carver

By: Lydia Reagan ~Feature Editor~ George Washington Carver was a man of botanical science and invention. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he lived from around the 1860’s…

Black History Month: Fannie Lou Hamer

By: Lydia Reagan ~Feature Editor~ Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who lived from 1917- 1977. She was the daughter of sharecroppers, and therefore worked in the fields…