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…
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,…
This Day In History: July 30th What do Laurence Fishburne and Vivica Fox have in common outside of being legendary…
On this day in 1909, writer Chester Bomar Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. Over the course of his…
This Day In History: July 27th Aviation pioneer and entrepreneur William J. Powell leveraged his brief career to empower African…
Early in the morning, at 3:25 a.m. on July 23, the Detroit Police Department raided a “blind pig,” an unofficial…
This Day In History: July 23rd A renowned medical professional, civil rights activist, and Army veteran are among the many titles held…
On this day in 1903, Francis Lewis Cardozo, a pioneering Black educator, minister and political leader, died in Washington, D.C.…
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…