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 1986 began a tradition of ‘Black Family Reunion’ at the National Mall in Washington, DC.
On this day in 1913, Olympic Games great Jesse Owens was born in Alabama.
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was overthrown by his military in a coup d’état on this day in 1974. He had been on the throne for fifty-eight years.
Bantu Stephen Biko, at the time the unquestioned leader of the Black Consciousness Movement and an anti-apartheid leader, was murdered while detained by the apartheid regime on this day in 1977.
On this day in 1924, Amilcar Lopez Cabral the leader of a liberated Guinea Bissau, was born.
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