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…
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…
Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men to reach the North Pole, was born August 8, 1866. Henson was…
From the food to the music, the cultural influence of Jamaica is undeniable. The Caribbean country proclaimed its independence from…
This Day In History: August 4th Award-winning journalist and Canada’s first person of color to serve as the 27th Governor-General,…
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…