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History was made 80 years ago today when Crystal Bird Fauset became the first African-American woman elected to state legislature…
White abolitionists took great risks in speaking out against slavery, often at the cost of their lives. Elijah P. Lovejoy,…
The late Anne Forrester served as one of the first African-American women, if not the first, to be named ambassador…
Roy Hargrove may not have been a mainstream name but in the world of jazz and music period, the virtuosic…
Benedict College is one of eight HBCUs in the great state of South Carolina. On November 2, 1894, the school…
In the fall of 1946, sociologist and professor Charles S. Johnson was named the first Black president of Fisk University…
On a day where children should have been trick or treating, the Eastside section of Jacksonville, Fla. was the site…
Benjamin McAdoo holds the distinction of being the first Black architect to open a firm in the city of Seattle,…
Sahle-Work Zewde began her life as a professional life as a diplomat for Ethiopia, serving as the African nation’s ambassador…
Mahalia Jackson was referred to as the “Queen of Gospel,” and her voice inspired countless vocalists in her genre and…
The Million Woman March took place on October 25, 1997 in Philadelphia along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The event was…
New Orleans was the center of a pair of racially unified strikes that brought the city to a standstill and…
