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On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier made history by becoming the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor.…
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his final speech at the Mason Temple Church of God in…
On March 31, 1888, Sojourner Truth helped establish the National Council of Women, the oldest private women’s organization in the nation. It…
One hundred years ago today, Zeta Phi Beta, one of the prominent national Black sororities, was chartered. Three years before the organization…
Sarah Vaughan was born on March 27, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey. Vaughan began singing in church as a child and later…
On this day in 2002, actress Halle Berry became the first Black woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Actress in…
On March 23, 1938, Atlanta’s first Black mayor, Maynard H. Jackson Jr., was born in Dallas, Texas. Jackson’s family moved to Atlanta…
On March 22, 1873, the Spanish legislature passed a law abolishing slavery in the colony of Puerto Rico. The decree mandated that…
White-ruled South Africa claimed possession of the territory now known as Namibia in 1920, after occupying the land, beginning in 1915, during…
Nat King Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 17, 1919. He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles, the son of Edward…
Maurice Ashley became the first Black chess player to earn the rank of International Grand Master on March 15, 1999. It is…
Born into slavery in 1822, Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist, humanitarian, and spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.…