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This Week In Black History

Week of March 14-20 March 14 1821—The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is officially formed in New York City. However,…
New Book Captures The Unsung Stories Of Former Slaves Who Became Entrepreneurs

A new book penned by author Shomari Wills delves into the journeys of Black pioneers who became entrepreneurs after slavery.
Alabama’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ racial violence of 1965 remembered

SELMA, Ala. (AP)—Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a…
This Week In Black History

Week of March 7-13 March 7 1539—This is probably the day Estevanico—the first Black conquistador—was killed. Estevanico, a Black Moor…
This Week In Black History

Week of February 7-13 February 7 1871—Alcorn A&M College (later “University”) opens in Mississippi. The great Black legislator Hiram Revels…
How Nurse Eunice Rivers Became Involved in the Tuskegee Syphillis Study: A Tale of Prejudice, Betrayal, and Neglect

On May 16th, 1997, President Bill Clinton addressed the nation from The East Room in the White House to issue…
Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember

Sicily, 1943: Whose blood was this U.S. soldier getting? NARA In December 1941, a few days after the bombing of…
Allison Davis: Forgotten Black scholar studied – and faced – structural racism in 1940s America

Allison Davis, circa 1965. Courtesy of the Davis family. When Black historian Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in…
Fifty Years After Historic Sanitation Strike, Thousands of Cooks, Cashiers to Carry on Fight for Higher Pay, Union Rights with Strikes, Protests Nationwide

  On Feb. 12, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the historic Memphis sanitation strike, Atlanta fast-food workers will rally as…
Black History: The Life and Legacy of Carter G. Woodson [Lecture]

Lecture by Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr on the “Life and Legacy of Carter G. Woodson” — widely known as the…
This Week In Black History

For the Week of January 10-16, 2018 January 10 1924—Legendary Jazz drummer and composer Max Roach is born in New…
King’s Fight for Economic Justice Was Largely Ignored by Mainstream Media

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role was…
Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz: Ilyasah Shabazz Speaks on Their Legacy

The symbol of racial equality and integration during the 1960s was Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., but the role model…
Sobukwe: A Giant Whose Voice Endures

It is an odd fluke that these two men arrived on and departed from this Earth on the same date,…
Reginald F. Lewis: The Dealmaker Who Changed The Face Of US Financial History

On Nov. 30, 1987, Reginald Lewis leveraged purchase of TLC Beatrice Int'l, which changed the landscape of Wall Street for…
Remembering The Politics Of Fred Hampton’s Killing 48 Years After His Death

On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton—21-year-old chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP)—was murdered by Chicago police…
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