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On this day in 1966, Emperor Haile Selassie I made a state visit to Jamaica. Among the Rastafarians this was a divine visit as they...

On this day in 1692, an arrest warrant was issued for Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, Sarah and Edward Bishop and others for ‘practicing...

Hammering Hank Aaron hit his first home run on this day in 1954. Twenty years later, he would hit 715 record-breaking home runs to break...

On this day in 1895, 12 Black Doctors met in Atlanta to form the National Medical Association in the following words: “Conceived in no...

The United Negro College Fund, now just UNCF, is the fundraising arm of all the private HBCUs in the United States. It was organized on...

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, blues singer and recording artist, was born on this day in 1886 in Georgia. History was made on this day in 1994...

Togo became an independent republic from France on this day in 1960. Coretta Scott, later to marry Martin Luther King, Jr, was born on...

Samuel Lee Gravely was the first African American to reach the top as Vice Admiral in the United States Navy on this day in 1971 On this...

Martin Luther King, Jr, was leading the Poor Peoples Campaign when he was assassinated. On this day in 1968, three weeks after King’s...

The fearless Aviator Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to get a pilot’s license, died in a plane crash on this day in 1926. Robert...