On August 13, 1881, Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., opened the first African American nursing school. African Americans seeking hospital…
On this day, August 12, 1890, in Washington, D.C., Annie Wilson Lillian Evans, known to the world as Lillian Evanti,…
On August 11, 1965, more than 30,000 people in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood began rioting after the arrest of 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…
On Aug. 8, 1934, Julian Carey Dixon was born in Washington, D.C. He would go on to represent California in…
Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…
On this day in 1962, Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom. After more than 300 years of British rule,…
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…