On this day, September 13, 1913, James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama. The youngest of 10 children,…
Mississippi’s first Black mayor since Reconstruction, James Charles Evers, was a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who helped register…
Michael Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, demonstrated prodigious musical talent from an exceptionally young age. By…
On August 26, 1874, one of the deadliest mass lynchings in U.S. history took place in Gibson County, Tennessee. In…
Many individuals are familiar with the “Red Summer Riots” of 1919, but few are familiar with the Houston Riot of…
What began as a massive rebellion against slavery and colonization turned out to be a decade-long war with the onset…
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner initiated the deadliest slave revolt in the history of the United States. In Southampton…
The arrival of the kidnapped Africans in the New World on August 20, 1619, marked the beginning of more than…
It started on this day in 1958. And it was sparked by a question from her teenage daughter, “Why didn’t…
The face of pan-Africanism, Marcus Garvey was a black nationalist who is known for sparking the “Back to Africa” movement.…
Civil rights organization the NAACP recently announced a new initiative to mobilize voters for the 2026 election through a series…
This Day In History: August 11th Journalist and diplomat Carl Thomas Rowan rose to popularity during the 1950s as a…