On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till was kidnapped from the home of his great-uncle after Carolyn Bryant accused the 14-year-old…
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, was born on October 20, 1891, in Ngenda, Kenya. He was born Kamau Ngengi to…
This Day In History: October 19th During the time of World War II and much racial tension, two qualified recruits…
Uganda gained its independence on October 9, 1962. Prior to independence, it was an established British protectorate in 1894 that…
The landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho was once home to the Sotho people during the 16th century. The territory completely surrounded…
Komla Afeke Dumor, esteemed journalist, was born in Accra, Ghana on October 3, 1972. He was one of the first…
The “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson, is known for disseminating information about black life, history, and culture to…
Black stars of the present and the future were the talk of this year’s U.S. Open. But 60 years prior,…
The landlocked Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly Swaziland, is surrounded on the North and South by South Africa, and on the…
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, was born on August 14, 1894, in Alderson, West…
Ralph Johnson Bunche, Nobel Prize winner, scholar and activist was born August 7, 1904, in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked…
Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa and formerly known as Upper Volta, became independent on August 5, 1960.…