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Eunice Kathleen Waymon, professionally known as Nina Simone, was a singer, songwriter, pianist arranger, and political activist. She was...

Julius Winfield Erving II, popularly known as Dr. J, is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players ever, was born on this day in...

Congressman Louis Stokes, lawyer, civil rights advocate, and politician was born on this day in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1969, he...

Creola Katherine Coleman Johnson was a scientific wizard whose calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA enabled countless space missions...

Hiram Rhodes Revels was born free in North Carolina, became a minister, and a college administrator. On this day in 1870, he became the...

Jimmy Lee Jackson, from Marion, Alabama, was murdered by an Alabama State Trooper during a peaceful march for voting rights on this day...

Born into slavery, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper rose to become one of the best educated Black Women ever. She went on to earn a PhD at the...

On this day in 1984, the greatest entertainer of them all, Michael Jackson won 8 awards at the 26th Grammy Awards program.