Author: EJ Stewart

When Tommie Smith and John Carlos lined up on the starting blocks at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City,…

The television industry was scratching the surface of its capabilities in the 1970s. Cable television was still in its infancy,…

Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…

Before he would be known as “The Captain” to Yankees fans worldwide, Derek Jeter was born in New Jersey to…

American Troops faced a crucial moment on June 17, 1775, during the Revolutionary War, as the British Army occupied Boston…

Civil Rights activist James Meredith became the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi on October 1, 1962, when…

Before George Coleman Poage made history at the 1904 Summer Olympic games, the Missouri-born trailblazer had already been accustomed to…

Baseball icon Frank Robinson was born on this day in 1935 in Beaumont, Texas. He died in February of 2019…

Muhammad Ali’s anti-Vietnam War stance cost him his heavyweight title and nearly his freedom when an all-white jury convicted him…

Former President of the NAACP, Arthur B. Spingarn, spent his career defending the rights of the underrepresented African American population…

Black stars of the present and the future were the talk of this year’s U.S. Open. But 60 years prior,…

Rosa Parks’ decision to face arrest rather than move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama led to…