On this day in 1963, civil rights activist, writer and political adviser James Meredith graduated after becoming the first Black…
On this day in 1960, Gabon gained independence from France. Prior to French rule, around 5,000 B.C., Gabon was inhabited…
Angela Evelyn Bassett, born August 16, 1958, in New York City, has become a defining figure in American cinema, notable…
The Town of Eatonville, Florida is Established The small town of Eatonville, Florida, began with a desire to have an…
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, was born on August 14, 1894, in Alderson, West…
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…
On this day in 1962, Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom. After more than 300 years of British rule,…