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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opened in Harlem, New York, on July 14, 1905. The center is one of…
On this day, July 13, in 1965, Thurgood Marshall was appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson to be the Solicitor General. After receiving…
On this day, July 12, in 1967, tension between police and residents in Newark, New Jersey, boiled over in what is now…
On this day (July 11) in 1905, W.E.B. Du Bois founded the Niagara Movement to aggressively petition for civil rights for African-Americans.…
At 6'5", according to the WNBA, the former Los Angeles Sparks center is considered to be "one of the most dynamic, popular…
Jazz icon Louis Armstrong passed away on this day 52 years ago, on July 6, 1971. Born on August 4, 1901, in…
Elon Musk’s new vision for Twitter appears to be backfiring and a new social media app created by Black tech entrepreneurs is…
On July 4, 1881, educator and activist Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, known today as Tuskegee University,…
On July 3, 1861, boxer Peter “The Prince” Jackson was born in Saint Croix. After moving to Australia as a child, Jackson…
The justices ruled in favor of a Harvard University group calling itself Students for Fair Admission, which accused the school of holding…
When Trump decisively lost the 2020 election, Republicans attempted to institute the “independent state legislature” theory, which would allow state legislatures to…
Philadelphia has become the latest city to announce the creation of a reparations task force to examine if the descendants of enslaved…