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…

This Day In History: July 19th Writer, educator and activist Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson used her talents to address complex…

This Day In History: July 18th Respected inventor and businessman Leonard C. Bailey received several patents and co-founded the Capital…

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…