On April 17, 1823, in a free Black community in Philadelphia, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born into a nation where…
This Day In History: April 16th Reigning as the overall top scorer in NBA history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spent his 20-year career breaking…
Asa Philip Randolph, founder of the March on Washington and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born on April…
On April 14, 1915, James Hutton Brew died in London at age 71, bringing to a close the life of…
On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor, earning…
On April 12, 1864, Confederate troops commanded by Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, a Union outpost on the Mississippi…
On April 11, 1881, two white teachers from Massachusetts opened a small school for Black women in the basement of…
On April 10, 1968, six days after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Congress approved one of…
Activist and Performer, Paul Robeson, Was Born Actor and activist, Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, April 9,…
Diplomat and Nobel Prize Winner, Kofi Annan, Was Born Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana,…
This Day In History: April 7th Anderson Ruffin Abbott was an esteemed physician and educator who was born on April…
This Day In History: April 7th Legendary jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, spent her two-decade career singing songs of love, protest…