Anna Julia Cooper, educator, writer, the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. (in history from the Sorbonne in…
Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men to reach the North Pole, was born August 8, 1866. Henson was…
From the food to the music, the cultural influence of Jamaica is undeniable. The Caribbean country proclaimed its independence from…
This Day In History: August 4th Award-winning journalist and Canada’s first person of color to serve as the 27th Governor-General,…
The spiritual mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, was a pioneer in both education and Christian…
On July 29, 1895, more than 40 African-American women representing organizations from 14 different states came together to hold the…
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…
Pushing social boundaries allowed Ira Frederick Aldridge to achieve international success as an actor. Aldridge, the first Black Shakespearean actor,…
This Day In History: Danny Glover Whether you know him from The Color Purple (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Saw (2004),…
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor and poet whose legacy was cemented as Theo Huxtable on the groundbreaking sitcom The Cosby Show,…