On July 29, 1895, more than 40 African-American women representing organizations from 14 different states came together to hold the…
This Day In History: July 27th Aviation pioneer and entrepreneur William J. Powell leveraged his brief career to empower African…
By the time World War II ended, some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to address civil rights issues within…
This Day In History: July 25th More than 20 years after experiencing a race riot in the 1940s, residents in…
Emmett Louis Till, whose lynching for allegedly “taunting” a white woman in Mississippi in 1955 became the lightning rod for…
Pushing social boundaries allowed Ira Frederick Aldridge to achieve international success as an actor. Aldridge, the first Black Shakespearean actor,…
This Day In History: July 23rd Renowned medical professional, civil rights activist and army veteran are amongst the many titles…
This Day In History: Danny Glover Whether you know him from The Color Purple (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Saw (2004),…
On July 21, 1896, in the heart of Washington, D.C., over 100 Black women leaders gathered at Nineteenth Street Baptist…
This Day In History: July 20th Prior to 1993, the city of St. Louis, Missouri, had never had an African…
This Day In History: July 19th Writer, educator and activist Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson used her talents to address complex…
This Day In History: July 18th Respected inventor and businessman Leonard C. Bailey received several patents and co-founded the Capital…