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Jenifer Lewis got her start in the church choir at the age of five, eventually moving to New York City where she…
More than a thousand people from a wide array of community organizations convened in Newark, New Jersey on July 20, 1967, to…
On July 13, the U.S. Capitol National Statuary Hall unveiled a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune, the daughter of formerly enslaved…
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed off on a law preventing citizens from recording police officers without their permission. The law takes effect…
Basketball legend Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. According to al.com, Barkley decided to donate the money…
Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014 as he played in a…
According to Reuters, Brittney Griner pleaded guilty on July 7 to drug charges but said she had not deliberately broken the law.…
Born in South Carolina in 1927, Gibson began playing tennis in Harlem, New York, and after winning two national Black women’s tennis…
Legendary screen actress and singer Lena Horne, one of the first Black actresses to sign a film contract with MGM Studios and…
Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in professional football and a member of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, died on June…
Mohamed Noor, a Black police officer who became the first police officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in the state of Minnesota,…
On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that limited the right to carry firearms in…