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Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born on December 11, 1926, in Alabama. Raised in a religious household, she discovered her passion…
On July 21, 1959, the Boston Red Sox became racially integrated. By signing infielder Elijah “Pumpsie” Green, the Red Sox became the…
On July 20, 1967, more than a thousand people from a wide array of community organizations and other groups convened in Newark…
Exactly 59 years ago today, on July 18, 1964, the Harlem Race Riot began after a 15-year-old Black teenager was fatally shot…
Diahann Carroll was born in the Bronx, New York, on July 17, 1935. When she was an infant, the family moved to…
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…
On July 4, 1881, educator and activist Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, known today as Tuskegee University,…