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Although blocked by white Southerners from being seated in the U.S. Senate, Pinchback was named acting governor from December 9, 1872, to…
Heavyweight boxer Charles “Sonny” Liston was born on May 8, 1932, in St. Francis County, Arkansas. Liston fought his way to boxing…
On May 5, 1905, the influential Black newspaper, the Chicago Defender, was founded by Robert S. Abbott. The paper was the first…
The thirteen Freedom Riders, seven Black and six white activists, rode two buses bound for New Orleans, testing the enforcement of the…
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner is speaking out on the inclusion of transgender athletes in competitive sports. The Spun reports at a press…
Elijah McCoy was born on May 2, 1843, to formerly enslaved people who fled the U.S. via the underground railroad. When McCoy…
Hate crimes have been going up since the 2008 election when Barack Obama became the nation’s first Black president. At an alarming…
Coretta Scott King was born in Marion, Alabama, on April 27, 1927. She would marry civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King…
Born in Harlem, New York, in 1927, Belafonte rose to fame with hits such as "The Banana Boat Song" and "Day-O (The…
The civil rights organization argues that these measures undermine the rights of the city of Jackson, which holds a majority-Black population, to…
Known as “the High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone was born in 1933 as Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina, and went…
The university's establishment was made possible by Richard Humphreys, a Quaker philanthropist who donated $10,000 - one-tenth of his estate - to…