The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded since 1968, but it wasn’t until 11 years later that…
Astronomer, mathematician and urban planner, Benjamin Banneker, was born on this day in 1731. Banneker was primarily self-educated but that…
Carol Moseley Braun made history on November 3, 1992, when she became the first African American woman elected to the…
The prosperous Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda (land north of the island), gained independence on November 1, 1981. The…
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, was born on October 20, 1891, in Ngenda, Kenya. He was born Kamau Ngengi to…
This Day In History: October 19th During the time of World War II and much racial tension, two qualified recruits…
The landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho was once home to the Sotho people during the 16th century. The territory completely surrounded…
When the founders of Atlanta University first established the institution, they could not have predicted that it would expand and…
The “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson, is known for disseminating information about black life, history, and culture to…
The landlocked Kingdom of eSwatini, formerly Swaziland, is surrounded on the North and South by South Africa, and on the…
Matthew Alexander Henson, one of the first men to reach the North Pole, was born August 8, 1866. Henson was…
Ralph Johnson Bunche, Nobel Prize winner, scholar and activist was born August 7, 1904, in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked…