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On this day in 1864, The New Orleans Tribune, the first daily Black newspaper, begins publishing. Two Black women’s organizations, the...

George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic fame, singer, songwriter and producer, born on this day in 1941. Veteran actor and Human Rights...

Jackie Robinson, the first Black person to play in Major League Baseball, is inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in...

Educator Mary Church Terrell passes on this day in 1954. One of the first Black women to earn a college degree, Terrell became a major...

On this day in 1972, the U.S. Government formally admitted to carrying out the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African...

Patrick Francis Healy became the first Black to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in...

Garrett Morgan, the great inventor and entrepreneur, died on this day in 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio. Morgan’s most notable invention is the...

On this day in 1917, about 10,000 people answered the call of the NAACP for a Negro Silent March Protest Parade along Fifth Avenue in New...

On this day in 1919, the National Association of Negro Musicians held their first meeting in Chicago. Notably, the group awarded a...

After the Civil War, southerners continued to fight change. On this day in 1866, Ex-Confederates, Democratic Party members, white...

On this day in 1960, Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, made a call for the establishment of an independent Black nation...