Iconic Black Panther Fred Hampton Was Born Fred Hampton, born on August 30, 1948, helped establish the Black Panther Party’s…
Michael Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, demonstrated prodigious musical talent from an exceptionally young age. By…
This Day In History: August 28th When Odessa Bradford’s car abruptly stopped at an intersection in North Philadelphia, she did…
More than 250,000 converged on the mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963,…
On August 27, 1963, the world marked the passing of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, a figure whose intellectual and activist…
On August 26, 1874, one of the deadliest mass lynchings in U.S. history took place in Gibson County, Tennessee. In…
Althea Gibson, one of the greatest athletes of our times, was born on August 25, 1927, in Clarendon County, South…
On August 24, 1950, Edith Sampson, a distinguished attorney from Chicago, broke significant ground as the first Black American to…
Many individuals are familiar with the “Red Summer Riots” of 1919, but few are familiar with the Houston Riot of…
What began as a massive rebellion against slavery and colonization turned out to be a decade-long war with the onset…
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner initiated the deadliest slave revolt in the history of the United States. In Southampton…
The arrival of the kidnapped Africans in the New World on August 20, 1619, marked the beginning of more than…