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…
This Day In History: August 1st By the start of the 1800s, there were more than 400,000 enslaved Africans dispersed…
Civil Rights Leader, Whitney Young Jr., Was Born Civil rights leader, presidential advisor and former head of the National Urban League,…
This Day In History: July 30th What do Laurence Fishburne and Vivica Fox have in common outside of being legendary…
On July 29, 1895, more than 40 African-American women representing organizations from 14 different states came together to hold the…
This Day In History: July 28th Protests are typically characterized by marching and chanting, but in 1917, the NAACP introduced…
This Day In History: July 27th Aviation pioneer and entrepreneur William J. Powell leveraged his brief career to empower African…
By the time World War II ended, some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to address civil rights issues within…
This Day In History: July 25th More than 20 years after experiencing a race riot in the 1940s, residents in…
Emmett Louis Till, whose lynching for allegedly “taunting” a white woman in Mississippi in 1955 became the lightning rod for…