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This Saturday, the nation will be joined in celebration for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which…
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Frank Snowden Jr. was a Classics professor and scholar who studied the lives of Black people during the Classical Antiquity…
Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California is one of the best-known members of the U.S. House of Representatives, earning notoriety as…
James H. McGee became Dayton, Ohio’s first Black mayor on July 15, 1970, and to date remains its longest tenured.…
Marian Spencer was a trailblazing civil rights activist who brought change to her native Cincinnati, becoming an important political figure…
W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter formed the Niagara Movement on July 11, 1905 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.…
The 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game is in the history books. But in 1971, the Midsummer Classic made its…
Frederic Morrow made history on July 9, 1955 after he was appointed as the first Black executive to serve in…
Billy Eckstine was a trailblazing bandleader who helped usher in the new sound of be-bop alongside some of jazz music’s…
