Writer and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote the landmark play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” about a Black family in Chicago…
This Day In History: May 18th One of five new African American Members elected to Congress in 2002, Denise Majette,…
On May 17, 1956, Sugar Ray Leonard was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, beginning a life that would help restore…
This Day In History: May 16th Attorney, politician and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, John Conyers Jr., spent…
On May 15, 1785, John Marrant, a free Black preacher born in colonial America, was ordained as a Methodist minister…
On May 14, 1881, Mary Jane Seacole, the Jamaican-born nurse and entrepreneur who earned admiration from British soldiers during the…
Slavery Was Abolished in Brazil Home to more people of African ancestry than any other country outside of those in…
This Day In History: May 12th Mervyn Dymally is the first Caribbean-born person to serve in the United States Congress…
Minister and Social Activist Louis Farrakhan Was Born The fiery Minister Louis Farrakhan was born on May 11, 1933, in…
Orator and Abolitionist, Henry Bibb, Was Born Abolitionist Henry Walton Bibb was born into bondage on May 10, 1815, in…
This Day In History: May 9th Writer, orator and physician were just some of the titles held by Harlem Renaissance…
This Day In History: May 8th In a field that was known for being dominated by men, Mary Lou Williams…