(AURN News) — On this day 25 years ago, Venus Williams won her second consecutive Wimbledon women’s singles championship, defeating Belgium’s Justine Henin 6-1, 3-6,
(AURN News) — George E. Johnson, the pioneering entrepreneur who built a Black hair-care empire, has died at 99, according to The New York Times.
(AURN News) — Billy G. Mills, a pioneering civil rights attorney, Los Angeles councilman and judge, has died at 96, according to NBC. Mills died
(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 250 years since July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence announced the birth of the United States. But America’s
(AURN News) — On July 2, 1777, Vermont made history by becoming the first U.S. territory to ban slavery. While the American Revolution was still
(AURN News) — On July 1, 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Dubbed the “anti-Thurgood
(AURN News) — On June 30, 1943, Florence Ballard was born in Detroit. A founding member of The Supremes, alongside Diana Ross and Mary Wilson,
(AURN News) — Tony Brown, the longtime host and producer of “Tony Brown’s Journal,” died June 17 at his home in Newport News, Virginia, according
(AURN News) — This Sunday marks 57 years since the Stonewall uprising began in New York City on June 28, 1969. In the early morning
(AURN News) — On June 25, 2009, the world lost one of its most iconic entertainers when Michael Jackson died at age 50 after suffering
On this day in 1969, 14-year-old Vivian Strong was killed by an Omaha police officer. Vivian, a Black girl, was at a dance party with
(AURN News) — An appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can remove and replace the slavery exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia,
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