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Hank Aaron on this day in 1975, hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves, surpassing Babe Ruth’s long-standing record. On this day in 1867,...

On this day in 1924, James Baldwin was born. Baldwin went on to become one of the most influential chroniclers of Black life in America....

Lloyd Ray patented his invention of the Dustpan on this day in 1897. Niger, located in West Africa, declared its independence from France...

Three civil rights workers went missing in Neshoba County, Mississippi. On this day in 1964, the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman...

Upper Volta, now renamed Burkina Faso, declared its freedom from France on this day in 1960. The Reverend James Augustine Healy, the...

Jamaica proclaimed itself as an independent country under the British Crown on this day in 1962. On this day in 1965, after a long...

George Thomas ‘Mickey’ Leland, Congressman from Texas died in a plane crash in Ethiopia in 1989. He and others were on a mission to...

Ivory Coast gained its independence on this day from France in 1960. Matthew Henson, the first man to reach the North Pole in 1908-09,...

Whitney Houston, singer, songwriter and actress, was born on this day in 1963. Black abolitionists organized the Free Soil Party in...

In 1817, on this day, a large group of free Africans in Philadelphia met to show their indignation towards the American Colonization...

J. Rosamond Johnson was born on this day in 1873. He was an actor and musician who, with his brother James Weldon Johnson, created the...

The Washington, DC home of Frederick Douglass was declared a national shrine on this day in 1922. Bantu Stephen Biko, the leader of the...

James B. Parsons is born on this day in 1911. He later achieved the position as the first African American appointed to a lifetime...

Ernest Everett Just, a path-breaking scientist at Howard University, was born on this day in 1883. On this day in 1862, President Abraham...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an accomplished musical composer and conductor, was born in England on this day in 1875. Congo Brazzaville gains...

Idi Amin Dada, who ruled Uganda for most of the 1970s, passed away in exile in Saudi Arabia.

On this day in 1960, Gabon declares independence from France. On this day in 1887, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the father of Black Nationalism,...

James Meredith in 1963 became the first Black person to be admitted into the University of Mississippi. The International Olympic...

Benjamin Banneker, a free African living Washington, DC publishes his first Almanac this day in 1791. On this day in 1989, at the height...

The first Africans were brought to Jamestown, VA in 1619 in indentured servitude. On this day in 1960, Senegal, on the West African...