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Jean, by this time, was expecting their first child. Jane was born in Queensland, Australia in October 1966, after which the Black family went to New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea) where Tim was medical superintendent of a 120-bed hospital and 10,000 square miles (26,000 km 2) of bush. [5] [6]
Timuel Dixon Black Jr. (December 7, 1918 – October 13, 2021) was an American educator, civil rights activist, historian and author. A native of Alabama, Black was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and studied the city's African-American history.
On December 24, 2009, Obama formally nominated Black to fill the district court vacancy, which was created by Judge Sandra Beckwith taking senior status on January 1, 2009. [4] On May 11, 2010, the United States Senate confirmed Black in a unanimous voice vote. He received his commission on May 13, 2010. He assumed senior status on May 18, 2022 ...
Angel Black always wanted a food garden, but she was never successful — until Farmscape helped convert the lawn in her family's Culver City backyard into a mini-farm.
Sixty years after Black Americans gained the right to vote in the United States through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Sen. Tim Scott on Friday makes history, becoming the longest-serving African ...
As the 119 th Congress begins on Friday, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is poised to make history as the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the U.S. Senate.
Also in 1974, Tim and Jean Black, newly returned from Kenya to London, set up a European branch of PSI called Population Services Family Planning Programme Ltd, which by 1976 had taken over the bankrupt Marie Stopes Foundation, renaming it as Marie Stopes International [12] (now MSI Reproductive Choices). Marie Stopes International/MSI ...
This story is our second in a series on Black family history to celebrate Black history this February. Once, when Raphael Morris was 10 years old, he and his