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(AURN News) — On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,…
(AURN News) — Donny Hathaway was born Oct. 1, 1945, in Chicago. A prodigy from a young age, he began singing in…
(AURN News) — On Sept. 25, 1861, the Union Navy opened its ranks to African Americans for the first time during the…
On Sept. 19, 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement, Iota Phi Theta fraternity was founded on the campus of…
On Sept. 17, 1983, Vanessa Williams made history at just 20 years old when she became the first Black woman crowned Miss…
On Sept. 12, 1944, Barry Eugene Carter — later known as Barry White — was born in Galveston, Texas. Raised in a…
On Sept. 2, 1766, abolitionist and inventor James Forten was born in Philadelphia. Forten, a free Black man, became a sailmaker and…
On Sept. 1, 1867, Robert Tanner Freeman became the first Black graduate of Harvard Dental School, making history as one of the…
On this day, Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The Black teenager…
On Aug. 26, 1874, 16 Black men were dragged from the jail in Trenton, Tennessee, by a white mob of masked men.…
On Aug. 22, 1989, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was shot and killed in West Oakland,…
On Aug. 19, 1958, the NAACP Youth Council, led by teacher Clara Luper and her students, launched a sit-in at the Katz…