This Day In History: May 24th Famed “Lady Marmalade” songstress Patti LaBelle has spent more than 60 years capturing audiences…
This Day In History: May 23rd Benjamin Sherman Crothers, better known by his stage name Scatman, began his career auditioning…
This Day In History: May 21st On the night of May 21, 1961, more than 1,000 Black residents and civil…
Born This Day in 1743. Here Are 5 Things To Know About Toussaint L’Ouverture Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of…
Writer and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote the landmark play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” about a Black family in Chicago…
One of the cornerstone cases of the Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education, helped to establish the fact…
This Day In History: May 16th Attorney, politician and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, John Conyers Jr., spent…
This Day In History: May 13th With more than two dozen Grammy awards to his name and over 20 studio…
Slavery Was Abolished in Brazil Home to more people of African ancestry than any other country outside of those in…
This Day In History: May 12th Mervyn Dymally is the first Caribbean-born person to serve in the United States Congress…
Minister and Social Activist Louis Farrakhan Was Born The fiery Minister Louis Farrakhan was born on May 11, 1933, in…
Orator and Abolitionist, Henry Bibb, Was Born Abolitionist Henry Walton Bibb was born into bondage on May 10, 1815, in…