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Pace-setting Civil rights lawyer and Women’s rights activist Pauli Murray passed away in Pittsburgh, PA. She was also the first Black...

Candy, an enslaved African woman, was acquitted of sorcery in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. On this day in 1988, Michael Jackson makes...

Dr. Charles Drew, who was the first to discover blood plasma that allowed for preservation of blood was born in 1904. Prince Hall founded...

In 1973, the Treaty of Chaguaramas established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a grouping of Caribbean nations to foster economic...

On this date in 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech, “What to The Slave Is The Fourth of July” in Rochester, New York....

In 1971 on this day, Henry T. Sampson, Jr, an African American, received a patent for co-inventing the gamma-electric cell, a technology...

Satchel Paige, perhaps the best pitcher to ever play Baseball, was born on this day in 1906.

David Harold Blackwell, a noted mathematician, passed away in California. He was the first African American to be elected to the...

E. Frederic Morrow is appointed as an aide to President Dwight. D. Eisenhower, becoming the first African American to occupy a senior...

David Dinkins was born on this day in 1927. He became the first African American mayor of New York City, serving from 1989-1993. Arthur...

Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, purchased his freedom from a merchant. His published autobiography was among the first to...

Isaiah Montgomery leads the establishment of an all African American town known as Mount Bayou in Mississippi in 1887. F. M. Jones is...

Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka) was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria on this day in 1934. On this day in 1972,...

Inventor John Standard was awarded a patent for the refrigerator on this day in 1891. Professor Maulana Karenga, the person who...

On this day in 1961, acclaimed actor, writer, producer and director Forest Whitaker, was born in Texas.

National Football League (NFL) great Barry Sanders was born on this day in 1968. Among the many accolades he earned in his storied...

Pioneering actress Diahann Carol was born on this day in 1935. Innovative Jazz Musician John Coltrane passed away on this day in 1967....

On this day in 1899, L.C. Bailey was granted a patent for the folding bed. Nelson Mandela, arguably Africa’s most popular and influential...

During World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established on this day in 1941 a Fair Employment Practices Committee to monitor...

More than one thousand Black people attended the first Black Power conference in Newark, New Jersey in 1967.