Little Known Black History Facts

Last Friday (July 28) marked 100 years since the NAACP’s first Negro Silent Protest Parade, better known as the Silent March. Around 10,000 African-Americans marched in silence down New York’s Fifth Avenue in response to the abject violence faced by Blacks and other injustices. The marches came on the heels of a series of race-related […]

In response to a violent series of race-related riots in East St. Louis, Ill., the NAACP staged a silent protest in New York City on this day in 1917. It was organized chiefly by scholar/author W.E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP and other community leaders who’d grown tired of the racial injustice in the country. The group […]