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From 1865 to 1966, the island nation of Barbados was occupied and colonized by the British and English. On November…
Willie O’Ree, the first Black player to play in the National Hockey League, was recently inducted into the Hockey Hall…
While Juneteenth is largely celebrated as a holiday among African-Americans to signal the end of slavery, the practice did not…
Benjamin McAdoo holds the distinction of being the first Black architect to open a firm in the city of Seattle,…
New Orleans was the center of a pair of racially unified strikes that brought the city to a standstill and…
The Chicago Public School Boycott of 1963, also known as “Freedom Day,” took place 55 years ago today. The protest…
On September 29th, 1910, The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was formed. It was created in response to the…
Joe Morgan, a 1990 inductee of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, is celebrating his 75th birthday today. He…
Charles Evers took up the mantle left behind the tragic killing of his younger brother Medgar Evers in 1963, carving…
The American Missionary Association was founded on this day in 1846 by a network of 19th Century missionaries with an…
Henry Highland Garnet made history as the first Black minister to address the U.S. House of Representatives in 1865, but…
Graphic designer Georg Olden broke a race barrier in the art world on this day in 1963. The award-winning artist…
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