History

On May 16th, 1997, President Bill Clinton addressed the nation from The East Room in the White House to issue a formal apology on...

Sicily, 1943: Whose blood was this U.S. soldier getting? NARA In December 1941, a few days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into World War II, a Detroit mother named Sylvia Tucker visited her local Red Cross donor center to give blood. Having heard the “soul-stirring” appeals for blood donors on […]

Allison Davis, circa 1965. Courtesy of the Davis family. When Black historian Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926 (expanded to Black History Month in 1976), the prevailing sentiment was that Black people had no history. They were little more than the hewers of wood and the drawers of water who, in their […]

  On Feb. 12, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the historic Memphis sanitation strike, Atlanta fast-food workers will rally as part of a wave of...

Lecture by Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr on the "Life and Legacy of Carter G. Woodson" -- widely known as the "father" of the tireless...

For the Week of January 10-16, 2018 January 10 1924—Legendary Jazz drummer and composer Max Roach is born in New York City. He was perhaps the greatest drummer-composer of the Jazz era performing with some of America’s best known Jazz musicians and singers. He formed Debut Records in 1952 with bassist Charles Mingus. 1957—The Southern […]

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role was integral in the Civil...

The symbol of racial equality and integration during the 1960s was Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., but the role model for Black independence and empowerment was Malcolm X. A prominent member and national spokesperson in the Nation of Islam (NOI) under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X gained popularity through his influence of building […]

It is an odd fluke that these two men arrived on and departed from this Earth on the same date, albeit almost a century...

Week of November 29-December 5, 2017 November 29 1780—After initial racist opposition, especially in the South, Blacks are welcomed into the Continental Army to help fight for American independence from Britain. The move was also prompted by British actions. The Americans were losing to the British, the British had launched their Southern campaign and were […]