On August 11, 1965, more than 30,000 people in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood began rioting after the arrest of a…
This Day In History: August 11th Journalist and diplomat Carl Thomas Rowan rose to popularity during the 1950s as a…
Anna Julia Cooper, educator, writer, the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. (in history from the Sorbonne in…
This Day In History: August 9th From Baby Boomers to Generation Z, people of all ages have heard and admired…
Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men to reach the North Pole, was born August 8, 1866. Henson was…
Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…
From the food to the music, the cultural influence of Jamaica is undeniable. The Caribbean country proclaimed its independence from…
On this day, August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was arrested by the apartheid regime. Born in…
This Day In History: August 4th Award-winning journalist and Canada’s first person of color to serve as the 27th Governor-General,…
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…
The spiritual mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, was a pioneer in both education and Christian…