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…
The spiritual mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, was a pioneer in both education and Christian…
This Day In History: August 1st By the start of the 1800s, there were more than 400,000 enslaved Africans dispersed…
Civil Rights Leader, Whitney Young Jr., Was Born Civil rights leader, presidential advisor and former head of the National Urban League,…
On July 29, 1895, more than 40 African-American women representing organizations from 14 different states came together to hold the…
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…