On August 11, 1965, more than 30,000 people in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood began rioting after the arrest of a…
This Day In History: August 11th Journalist and diplomat Carl Thomas Rowan rose to popularity during the 1950s as a…
Anna Julia Cooper, educator, writer, the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. (in history from the Sorbonne in…
This Day In History: August 9th From Baby Boomers to Generation Z, people of all ages have heard and admired…
Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…
On this day, August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was arrested by the apartheid regime. Born in…
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…
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…