On September 9, 1739, before dawn cast its first light over South Carolina, the largest slave uprising in the British…
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges, born September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, made history when she became…
Many icons in the music industry, from Beyonce to Will Smith, share September as a birth month. On this day…
This Day In History: September 6th In addition to being popular singers and entertainers, Sylvester and CeCe Peniston share the…
On September 5, 1825, Harriet E. Wilson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, and would go on to be recognized…
Literary great and thought-provoker Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908, on a plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, near Natchez.…
On September 2, 1956, the small town of Clinton, Tennessee, emerged as a significant battleground in the fight for school…
Before George Coleman Poage made history at the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, the Missouri-born trailblazer had already been accustomed to…
Former Black Panther Minister, Eldridge Cleaver, Was Born Author, activist and former Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party,…
Iconic Black Panther Fred Hampton Was Born Fred Hampton, born on August 30, 1948, helped establish the Black Panther Party’s…
This Day In History: August 28th When Odessa Bradford’s car abruptly stopped at an intersection in North Philadelphia, she did…
More than 250,000 converged on the mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963,…