The Jim Crow Era was an attempt at the local and national levels to keep the African-American population in captivity.…
On September 2, 1956, the small town of Clinton, Tennessee, emerged as a significant battleground in the fight for school…
Before George Coleman Poage made history at the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, the Missouri-born trailblazer had already been accustomed to…
Former Black Panther Minister, Eldridge Cleaver, Was Born Author, activist and former Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party,…
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…