Born in Augusta, Ga., to Silas Norman, an insurance salesman, and Janie King-Norman, a schoolteacher, music was always in the…
National Women’s Hall of Fame member Constance Baker Motley, an activist, lawyer and federal judge who helped to advance the…
This Day In History: September 13th Gifted scholar Alain LeRoy Locke is often considered by many to be the father…
On this day in 1973, the United States Postal Service honored artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and his influence with a…
On September 10, 1779, Nathaniel Wells was born on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Nathaniel Wells was the son…
On September 9, 1739, before dawn cast its first light over South Carolina, the largest slave uprising in the British…
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges, born September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, made history when she became…
Many icons in the music industry, from Beyonce to Will Smith, share September as a birth month. On this day…
This Day In History: September 6th In addition to being popular singers and entertainers, Sylvester and CeCe Peniston share the…
On September 5, 1825, Harriet E. Wilson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, and would go on to be recognized…
Literary great and thought-provoker Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908, on a plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, near Natchez.…
On this day in 1919, Lincoln Motion Picture released the first feature-length production featuring an all-Black cast. Released in 1919,…