This Day In History: September 30th In addition to being talented Grammy Award-winning singers, Cissy Houston and Johnny Mathis share…
The little-known Opelousas Massacre of 1868 represented a pivotal turning point in the Reconstruction-era South. A white supremacist group in…
Assata Shakur, a political activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army who escaped from a New Jersey prison…
This Day In History: September 21st Belize is a Central American country close to the Caribbean Sea and home to…
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…