RANDELL THOMS (far right):  First person to sell roses in the club.  

RANDELL THOMS (far right):  First person to sell roses in the club.  

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Hey all!

Tune in to Temple University’s WHIP radio tonight at 9 pm EST to catch a little chit chatting with Tracy Clayton, curator and head researcher here at Little Known Black History Facts.  Listen live at the link above.

Go grab a snack!  You got 30 minutes!

Freddy Jones-Brown

First person to use the word “raw” to describe something impressive (i.e.: Did you see Carlos’ new Cutlass?  That car is raw).

Terrence Durell Hardey

First person to tell somebody “what had happened.” 

MELLWOOD ANTHONY BISHOP (left):  First person to observe that once you go black, you never go back.

MELLWOOD ANTHONY BISHOP (left):  First person to observe that once you go black, you never go back.

George “G-Money” Spencer

First person to end every sentence with “…it is what it is.”

Ty’Ronda Shannon

First person to begin every sentence with, “at the end of the day…”

KEVIN WINTERS, BRADLEY QUINN, DEERICK “BOOST” YOUNG: First children to knock on somebody’s front door and run (known colloquially as “ding dong ditch” and/or “nigga knockin’”)

KEVIN WINTERS, BRADLEY QUINN, DEERICK “BOOST” YOUNG: First children to knock on somebody’s front door and run (known colloquially as “ding dong ditch” and/or “nigga knockin’”)

Irving P. O’Neal

First person to use a wire hanger as a television antenna.

Glorinda Swopes

First person to ask her natural haired granddaughter when she’s going to “do somethin’ to that head.” 

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