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Colin Kaepernick first started kneeling to protest social injustice in a preseason game on this day in 2016. Prior to that, he had sat...

On this day in 1766, James Forten, a free African, abolitionist, businessman and inventor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On this day in 1970, 3,000 people of African descent met in Atlanta, Georgia to establish the Congress of African People. The CAP was an...

Governor Orval Faubus on this day in 1957 banned Black Students from integrating Little Rock’s Central High School. This was to be...

In 1983, scholar Henry Louis Gates published a reprint of Our Nig, reportedly the first novel published in the United States by an...

On this day in 1968, The Kingdom of Swaziland secured its independence from the United Kingdom. It changed its name to Eswatini (land of...

Theodore Walter ‘Sonny’ Rollins, Grammy Award winning jazz musician, was born on this day in New York in 1930. Public schools in...

Ruby Bridges, forever etched in our minds as the six-year-old being escorted to school by U.S. Marshalls, was born on this day in 1954 in...

The Stono rebellion (also called Cato’s Conspiracy) started on this day in 1739 in the province of South Carolina. It was the most...

On this day in 1962, the Supreme Court orders the University of Mississippi to adhere to a District court order to admit James Meredith...

The Black United Front was a coalition of many organizations that met on this day in 1969. It believed in ‘black power’, with the...

Dr Mae Jemison on this day in 1992 made history as the first Black woman in space. The National Council of Negro Women on this day in...

Louis Latimer received a patent for the Electric lamp on this day in 1881. Alain Leroy Locke, philosopher and educator, was born on this...

Constance Baker Motley, one of the most significant leaders of the anti-Jim Crow civil rights struggles, was born on this day in 1921 in...

At 10:22 am on this day in 1963, a Sunday morning, a bomb ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Addie...

‘Emperor Jones’ made its debut on the screens on this day in 1933. It was Paul Robeson’s first major movie in a starring role; it was...

Today in 1861 was the first day of class for free Africans in a school founded in Fortress Monroe, VA. Mary Peake was the first teacher...

Arnold Tamayo, a Cuban, became the first Black person to go on a space mission on this day in 1980. In a major speech on this day in 1895...

Emerge Magazine began publishing on this day in 1989. It targeted the ‘upwardly mobile’ African American population, with an initial...

On this day in 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., survived an assassination attempt when he was stabbed in the chest by a woman...