This Day In History: July 17th Legendary actress and performer Diahann Carroll began her career during the 1950s and earned…
Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862, on a plantation in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the oldest…
This Day In History: July 15th Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, served two terms in office despite his…
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Was Passed On July 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance, which outlawed slavery in the Northwest…
This Day In History: July 12th Frederick McKinley Jones was an early 20th-century inventor who made revolutionary contributions to the…
This Day In History: July 11th In the wake of failed Reconstruction attempts and Jim Crow tactics, prominent African-American intellectuals…
Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, on a rice and cotton farm near Mayesville, South Carolina, where…
This Day In History: July 9th Jester Hairston was a choir conductor, music composer, actor and Goodwill Ambassador with a…
This Day In History: July 8th Women’s health advocate and nurse Alyce “Faye” Wattleton began her mission during the 1970s…
This Day In History: July 5th The island country of Cape Verde, also known as Cabo Verde, gained its independence…
Tuskegee University Was Founded With the leadership of Dr. Booker T. Washington and the dream of Lewis Adams, a former…
In this episode, July 4, 2020, episode of In Class With Carr, Dr. Greg Carr tears into the whitewashed mythology…