Tag: On this day

On this day, Clara Hale, known as “Mother Hale,” was born Clara McBride in 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Orphaned at…

(AURN News) — On March 25, 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train…

On this day, March 19, 1897, Loretta Mary Aiken, better known as comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley, was born in North Carolina. Beginning…

(AURN News) — On this day, March 18, 1963, Vanessa Williams, a trailblazing entertainer, was born. Williams was born in Millwood, New…

(AURN News) — On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was fatally shot by police in her apartment…

(AURN News) — On this day, March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Native American descent, became the first…

(AURN News) — On this day, March 4, 1877, Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky. The son of a formerly…

(AURN News) — On this day, March 2, 1867, Howard University was established in Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of the Civil…

(AURN News) — On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first Black man to serve in the United States Senate.…

(AURN News) — On this day in 1865, the Kentucky General Assembly refused to ratify the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery except…

(AURN News) — On this day, Feb. 20, 1927, trailblazing actor and director Sidney Poitier was born in Miami. He became the…

(AURN News) — On Feb. 19, 1919, the first Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, convened in Paris at the close…