This Day In History: June 8th With a career spanning more than three decades, Keenen Ivory Wayans has been humoring…
Poet Nikki Giovanni Was Born New York Times bestseller Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943,…
Civil Rights activist James Meredith became the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi on October 1, 1962, when…
This Day In History: June 5th With the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance, Black theater was able to thrive during…
Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate States of America, the group of southern states that seceded…
This Day In History: June 2nd Scholar, author and professor are just a few of the titles Dr. Cornel West,…
The Tulsa Race Massacre Ends The arrest of Dick Rowland, a young African-American man accused of assaulting a white woman,…
It was known as the Tulsa Race Riot. But in actuality, it was two days of the decimation of one…
This Day In History: May 30th Former Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of…
This Day In History: January 30th Lawyer and politician Sharon Pratt gained national attention when she won the 1990 mayoral…
The First African-American Mayor of Los Angeles Elected On May 29, 1973, Thomas “Tom” Bradley made history when he was…
This Day In History: May 28th Abolitionist and church leader Eliza Ann Gardener is a voice of the abolitionist movement…