On Aug. 8, 1934, Julian Carey Dixon was born in Washington, D.C. He would go on to represent California in…
Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…
On this day in 1962, Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom. After more than 300 years of British rule,…
On this day, August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was arrested by the apartheid regime. Born in…
On this day in 1897, Lloyd P. Ray, an African American inventor, received U.S. Patent No. 587,607 for a simple…
Best-selling author and activist James Arthur Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York. His eloquence and…
This Day In History: August 1st By the start of the 1800s, there were more than 400,000 enslaved Africans dispersed…
Civil Rights Leader, Whitney Young Jr., Was Born Civil rights leader, presidential advisor and former head of the National Urban League,…
This Day In History: July 30th What do Laurence Fishburne and Vivica Fox have in common outside of being legendary…
On this day in 1909, writer Chester Bomar Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. Over the course of his…
This Day In History: July 28th Protests are typically characterized by marching and chanting, but in 1917, the NAACP introduced…
This Day In History: July 27th Aviation pioneer and entrepreneur William J. Powell leveraged his brief career to empower African…