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On this day in 1960, four freshmen at North Carolina A & T University initiated the Sit-in Movement of the Civil Rights Struggles. Ezell...

On this day in 1897, Alfred L. Cralle invented the ice cream scooper while working in Pittsburgh, PA. President Harry S. Truman sent a...

Marlon Troy Riggs, a filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist, was born on this day in 1957. His documentary, Ethnic Notions,...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, Civil Rights activist whose actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, was born on this day in 1913...

On this day in 1950 Natalie Cole, singer and daughter of music legend Nat King Cole was born in Los Angeles, California. On this day in...

The Jail-In Movement started on this day in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina when nine young Blacks insisted on a jail term as opposed...

Dr. Carter G. Woodson started the first Negro History Week to “extend and deepen the study and scholarship on Black History” on this day...

Gary Wayne Coleman, comedian, actor, and writer, was born on this day in 1968 in Zion, Illinois. He a major child start of television in...

On this day in 1995, astronaut Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr, became the first African American to complete a spacewalk. Alice Malsenior...

Singer Roberta Cleopatra Flack was born on this day in 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She is most known for her many hit...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is finally released from prison after twenty-seven years in prison on this day in 1990. It was the beginning of...

For a President Lincoln Birthday activity on this day in 1900, James Weldon Johnson, lawyer, poet, novelist and activist, wrote the...

Henry Highland Garnet was an abolitionist, minister, educator, and speaker who escaped slavery and became a fierce proponent of militant...

Bishop Richard Allen, a minister, educator, writer, builder, and pacesetter, was born on this day in 1760 ‘near Dover, Delaware’. He...

Henry Jay Lewis, child prodigy, was on this day in 1968 named the Conductor and Musical Director of the New Jersey Symphony. He was the...

Tracy Lauren Marrow, aka Ice-T, was born on this day in 1958 in Newark, New Jersey.

Mary Frances Berry, historian, lawyer, writer, activist, and professor was born on this day in 1938 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the...

Audre Geraldine Lorde, writer, poet, feminist, womanist, librarian, activist, was born on this day in 1934 in Harlem, New York. Andre...

The Pan-African Congress was held beginning on this day in 1919 to coincide with the Peace talks in Paris after World War I. W.E.B....

Sidney Poitier, consummate actor, film director, and diplomat, was born on this day in 1927 in Miami, Florida. He is the first Black man...