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• Kwanzaa Ends Today - Imani/Faith; (Karamu/Feast)

• TV Special: Rose Parade (11 a.m. EST, ABC Channel)

• Ntl Hobby Month

• Happy New Year, NORTH AMERICA- A new beginning, a new year.

• Happy Birthday MORRIS CHESTNUT/AARON NEVILLE

• IT'S MENTORSHIP MONTH: Goals & Aspirations

• We remember Fred 'drummer' White (d. 2022)

• Eco-friendly Sunday
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• Jan - Feb Mimosa Holiday, Yugoslavia

• We remember Harold Bradley (b. 1926)

• Happy Birthday, CUBA GOODING JR/TAYE DIGGS

• Happy Birthday, State of GEORGIA

• National Buffet Day

• New Monday
3
• Happy Birthday, State of Alaska

• William Tucker, 1st African American child born in NORTH AMERICA. (1624)

• Interesting Tuesday
4
• Happy Birthday, State of UTAH/JEANNIE MAI

• We remember, Gregory 'actor' Sierra (d.2021).

• Doable Wednesday
5
• Happy Birthday, BRADLEY COOPER

• National Whipped Cream Day

• Anticipating Thursday
6
• The cutting of "Le Gateau des Rois" ends Canadian festive holiday

• FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY/Little Christmas

• Happy Birthday, State of NEW MEXICO/JULIE CHEN

• Pleasant Friday
7
• Who created the Wall Street Journal? Click here to find out.

• We remember Sidney Poiter (d. 2022); Adam "Eight is Enough" Rich (d. 2023).

• Ethopia's Christmas Day celebration

• 1st US President Election (1789)

• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, R. KELLEY; CYNTHIA ERIVO.

• We remember Elvis Presley 1/8/35-8/16/77; Denise Lasalle 7/16/39 - 1/8/2018.

• Name the person who created a bronze image of Martin Luther King.

• Eco-friendly Sunday
9
• Former Pres. Richard Nixon, 1913

• Happy Birthday, JOHN LEGEND/EARL GRAVES SR

• Happy Birthday, State of CONNECTICUT

• We remember musician 5th Ward Weebie (d. 2020).

• New Monday
10
• Happy Birthday, ROD STEWART

• We remember David Bowie

• Interesting Tuesday
11
• Congress passed the right for blacks to vote, who was asked to enforce ruling?

• Happy Birthday, KIM COLES/MARY J. BLIGE/NAOMI JUDD

• National Milk Day

• We remember Claude Nobs

• Doable Wednesday
12
• Name the 1st black to sing @ presidential inauguration

• Happy Birthday, KIRSTIE ALLEY/ISSA RAE

• Anticipating Thursday
13
• Happy Birthday, PATRICK DEMPSEY

• Traditionally the coldest day of the year.

• St. Knut's Day, Sweden

• We rememberTeddy Pendergrass 1950-2010.

• Pleasant Friday
14
• 2nd Sunday (January): End of our Global December Festive Holiday-Traditions theme activity. Theme should really end Feb. 3, yearly after Candlemas Day (Feb. 2)

• Happy Birthday, LL COOL J/JASON BATEMAN

• National Dress Up Your Pet Day

• Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick inducted into New Jersey's Hall of Fame (2014)

• We remember Conrad Brian (d. 2013)

• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, LISA "LISA/CULT JAM" VELEZ/REGINA KING

• Strawberry Ice Cream Day

• Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr National Holiday

• Eco-friendly Sunday
16
• Happy Birthday, DEBBIE ALLEN/KATE MOSS/SADE

• Ntl Good Teen Day

• Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Day

• Free African Americans enlisted into U.S. service - 1776

• We remember "singer" Aliyah.

• Take down Dec. holiday decor at sunset.

• New Monday
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• We remember Benjamin Franklin

• Happy Birthday, STEVE HARVEY; JAMES EARL JONES; BETTY WHITE; Former 1ST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA; JIM CARREY; RAY J; TRAVIS GREENE

• National Racial Healing Day

• Interesting Tuesday
18
• Happy Birthday, ESTELLE/JASON SEGEL/ANGELA WINBUSH

• What year was prayer taken out of the public schools?

• Doable Wednesday
19
• National Popcorn Day

• We remember John Johnson, Jean'actress'Stapleton, Olivia "actress" Cole 11/26/42 - 1/19/18d, James Ingram (d. 2019); musician and composer Jimmy Heath

• Organization of the first Baptist Church at Savannah, GA - 1788

• Happy Birthday, DOLLY PARTON/SHAWN WAYANS

• 1st Black Audience @ White House,1862

• Anticipating Thursday
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• ETHIOPIA, AFRICA: Festival of Timket 2024

• Happy Birthday DJ ?UESTLOVE; MARGARET AVERY

• National DJ Day

• How did DC get its name?

• We remember DeForest'Dr. McCoy'Kelley.

• National Day of Patriotism

• World Religion Day

• Pleasant Friday
21
• Happy Birthday, RICHARD GUTIERREZ, BILLY OCEAN.

• We remember actor Telly Savalas, Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Kaye Ballard (d. 2019)

• National Hug Day

• Investment Saturday
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• Happy Birthday, DJ JAZZY JEFF

• We remember Sam Cooke 1/22/1931–12/11/1964

• Chinese New Year

• Eco-friendly Sunday

• Chinese New Year
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• Thomas Dorsey "Father of Gospel" d. born 7/1/1899

• Happy Birthday, LE'ANDRIA JOHNSON

• National Pie Day (Food)

• TV Special: Producers Guild of America Awards

• 1st premiere of Roots by Alex Haley - 1977

• New Monday
24
• National School Choice Week (1/24-30)

• We remember James Farentino

• Happy Birthday, NEIL DIAMOND; AARON NEVILLE; TATYANA ALI

• Interesting Tuesday
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• Happy Birthday, ALICIA KEYES, JENIFER LEWIS

• Thank Your Mentor Day

• We remember Etta "singer" James; Mary Tyler actress Moore; Cindy actress Williams (d.2023)

• National Irish Coffee Day

• Doable Wednesday
26
• We remember Robert Hegyes

• National Spouses Day

• AUSTRALIA DAY

• REPUBLIC DAY (INDIA)

• Happy Birthday, ANITA BAKER/KIRK FRANKLIN/State of MICHIGAN/TYE TRIBBET/ELLEN DEGENERES/ANGELA DAVIS

• Anticipating Thursday
27
• Happy Birthday, actor/comedian JOHN WITHERSPOON

• Leontyne Price's Metropolitan Opera deput - 1961

• We remember MOZART (1756)

• National Chocolate Cake Day

• Pleasant Friday

• International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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• Happy Birthday, ANTHONY HAMILTON/THE DREAM/J-COLE/RAKIM/RICK ROSS/ALAN ALDA/MONIFA CARTER

• We remember daytime soap actress Marj Dusay (d. 2020), Cicely Tyson (d.2021).

• Birth of Richard Bartha, African American Sculptor - 1901

• Investment Saturday
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• Name the 1st person to sing gospel @ the Apollo Theater

• Happy Birthday, OPRAH WINFREY/ADAM LAMBERT/TOM SELLECK/JUDY NORTON TAYLOR/CHARLIE WILSON/State of KANSAS/SARA GILBERT. We remember, James Ingram (d. 2019).

• National Corn Chip Day and Puzzle Day

• Eco-friendly Sunday
30
• Name 1st black to design a US coin.

• Death of Gandhi of India

• We remember producer Fred Silverman (d. 2020), Cindy Williams (d. 2022).

• Former Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, 1882

• Happy Birthday, CHRISTIAN BALE/JODY WATLEY

• New Monday
31
• King Stitt d. 1/31/2012

• Happy Birthday, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE/KERRY WASHINGTON

• Interesting Tuesday
1
• Islam Faith: Hijab Day
• We remember Langston Hughes d.1967; Rick James d. 2004; Don Cornelius d. 2012; Sherman Hemsley d. 2012; Dennis Edwards d. 2018; Marc 'Simpsons' writer Wilmore d. 2021; Lisa Marie Presley d. 2022
• Happy Birthday, LAURA MARLING, BIG BOI
• William Tucker, 1st African American child born in NORTH AMERICA. (1624)
• Hosted Theme: Honoring Married Couples Month; It's National African American History Month; Reggae Month
• National Freedom Day
• Doable Wednesday
2
• Happy Birthday, SHAKIRA/CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
• Where was the 1st African Day parade?
• CANDLEMAS DAY or End of Christmas-Epiphany Season
• We remember Sylvia "Soul Food" Woods 2/2/1926-7/19/2012, Dennis "Tempations" Edwards 2/3/1943 - 2/2/2018; Danny 'James Brown's Emcee' Ray
• Anticipating Thursday
3
• We remember Ben Gazzara; Maurice White; Dennis Edwards (b. 1943). co-producer Gene Reynolds (d. 2020); actor Kirk Douglas (d. 2020).
• Where is the 1st statue of a black and for whom?
• Happy Birthday YOUNG M.A
• Pleasant Friday
4
• Happy Birthday JEREMY RENNER, TABITHA BROWN, NICOLLE WALLACE
• We remember Rosa Lee Parks (1913); Unofficial Rosa Parks Day; Conrad Brian (b. 1923)
• Thank-A-Letter Mail Carrier Day
• Investment Saturday