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: Danny Glover Whether you know him from The Color Purple (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Saw (2004),…
This Day In History: July 3rd Not all songs withstand the test of time, but the 1965 classic single “Rescue…
Mozambique Gains Independence in 1975 Mozambique, a southeastern African country rich in natural resources, gained independence from Portugal on June…
There wouldn’t be The Walking Dead without the works of Octavia Butler, who was one of the first to explore a…
They are known as the Charleston 9 (#NeverForget) and their names are: On a Wednesday evening, June 17, 2015, a…
This Day In History: June 16th Newark’s first Black Mayor, Kenneth Gibson, served four consecutive terms from 1970 to 1986…
This Day In History: January 30th Lawyer and politician Sharon Pratt gained national attention when she won the 1990 mayoral…
The scholar-librarian, Dorothy Porter Wesley, was born May 25, 1905, in Warrenton, Virginia. Wesley created a leading modern research library…
Caribbean American writer, Jamaica Kincaid, brings vivid portrayals of family relationships and Antiguan culture to the various essays, stories and…
One of the cornerstone cases of the Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education, helped to establish the fact…