On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor, earning…
On April 12, 1864, Confederate troops commanded by Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, a Union outpost on the Mississippi…
On April 11, 1881, two white teachers from Massachusetts opened a small school for Black women in the basement of…
On April 10, 1968, six days after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Congress approved one of…
Activist and Performer, Paul Robeson, Was Born Actor and activist, Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, April 9,…
Diplomat and Nobel Prize Winner, Kofi Annan, Was Born Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana,…
This Day In History: April 7th Anderson Ruffin Abbott was an esteemed physician and educator who was born on April…
This Day In History: April 7th Legendary jazz vocalist, Billie Holiday, spent her two-decade career singing songs of love, protest…
On April 6, 1937, Billy Dee Williams was born in New York City, beginning a career that would make him…
Influential Educator, Booker T. Washington, Was Born Educator and writer Booker T. Washington was born in bondage on April 5,…
On April 4, 1968, the civil rights movement lost its most recognizable leader when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated…
This Day In History: April 3rd From performing stand-up routines at local clubs to becoming one of the highest-earning comedians…