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Morgan Freeman, Academy Award-winning actor, director, and narrator was born on this day in 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. On May 31, and...

Cornell Ronald West, professor, philosopher, activist, orator, and public intellectual, was born on this day in 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma....

Roland Hayes was a pace setter concert singer and musician who broke barriers for most of his career. He was born on this day in 1887 in...

Solomon George Washington Dill was a White Republican ally who believed in ending slavery. As a State legislator in South Carolina, he...

The American Negro Theater was formed on this day in 1940 by writer Abram Hill and actor Frederick O’Neal. It was founded with the...

Mae Carol Jemison, engineer, physician, dancer, was on this day in 1987 chosen as a NASA astronaut. She ended up becoming the first...

Gwendolyn (Gwen) Elizabeth Brooks, poet, author, and teacher was a chronicler of Black life. Her collection, Annie Allen, won her the...

Kanye Omar West, also referred to as Ye, Yeezy, Saint Pablo, Yeezus, was born on this day in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. As a rapper,...

On this day in 1989, Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, introduced a bill in congress that called for a study of...

On this day in 2004, the world lost a genius of a musician when Ray Charles Robinson died. Ray Charles is largely credited with...

Ruby Dee, born Ruby Ann Wallace, actress, playwright, journalist, civil rights activist, passes on into eternity on this day in 2014 at...

Medgar Wiley Evers was murdered on this day in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights struggles in the South. In his capacity as the...

On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to the United States Supreme Court. Marshall thus became...

On this day in 1811, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. A novelist, writer, and an abolitionist, she...

Bessie Coleman made history on this day in 1921 in France when she earned her international pilot’s license from the Federation...

The Soweto Uprising began on this day in 1976 when schoolchildren refused to accept Afrikaans, rather than English, as the medium of...

On this day in 1972, a security guard Frank Wills noticed an unlocked door at the Democratic National Committee office at the Watergate...

William H Richardson was an African American inventor who on this day in 1889 received a patent for the ‘Child’s Carriage’.

On this day in 1862, the United States Congress authorized the annulment of the Fugitive Slave Acts, abolished slavery in the western...

Harry Belafonte becomes the first Black person to win an Emmy Award on this day 1960 for his TV show, Tonight with Harry Belafonte....