Entertainer and musician Chuck Berry transcended generations and captured audiences by putting his listeners’ amusement above all else. Berry was…
Physician and astronaut Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama. In 1992, Jemison made history…
On October 16, 1995, hundreds of thousands of Black men filled the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Million Man…
When Tommie Smith and John Carlos lined up on the starting blocks at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City,…
William Hastie Nominated To U.S. Court of Appeals Attorney, politician and federal judge William H. Hastie served the U.S. Judicial…
On this day in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his exceptional leadership…
In January 2021, President Joe Biden became the first president in American history to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “For…
Inventor Garrett Morgan patented a respiratory device that would later serve as the blueprint for World War I gas masks…
This Day In History: October 12th From growing up in poverty to becoming a trailblazing comedian and activist, Dick Gregory…
On October 11, 1865, the quiet town of Morant Bay, Jamaica, hundreds of Jamaicans, led by Baptist preacher Paul Bogle,…
On October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, one of the most original voices in American music was born,…
Uganda gained its independence on October 9, 1962. Prior to independence, it was an established British protectorate in 1894, put…