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The late Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley made history in 1945 as an officer for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps,…
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…
DETROIT (AP) — Wally Triplett, the trailblazing running back who was one of the first African-Americans drafted by an NFL…
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,…
Jeff Johnson had a segment on the TJMS back in the day and today we’ll throw it back to a…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Items owned by Tupac Shakur have been donated to Temple University, including a bullet-dented golden medallion the…
Benjamin McAdoo holds the distinction of being the first Black architect to open a firm in the city of Seattle,…
“If I reach back far enough I can touch my own family slavery in a very personal way.” – Bishop…
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