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Joseph Hayne Rainey gained fame during Reconstruction as the first Black person to serve in the United states House of Representatives. ...

Joseph Louis Barrow, also known as the Brown Bomber, and better known as Joe Louis in the boxing ring, was a beloved Black figure whose...

Two-time Olympic athletic champion Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born on this day in 1940 in Tennessee. In the games in 1960, Rudolph became...

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, then a Congresswoman from Los Angeles, was appointed as the Vice-Chair of the 1972 Democratic Convention. She...

Sonia Maria Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United State Supreme Court, was born on this day in 1954. She is the first Latina ever...

Jazz great Clifford Benjamin Brown, at only 25 years old, died in a tragic accident on this day in 1956 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The...

On this day in 1939, Frederick Jones, an African American inventor, was granted U.S. Patent # 2163754A for the ticket dispenser machine.

On this day in 1964, Malcolm X founded the Organization of African American Unity (OAAU) to advance the course of Black self-empowerment...

Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael, also known as Kwame Ture, was born on this day in 1941. He was a life-long organizer and...

On this day in 1847, Dred Scott, a former enslaved man sued in court for his freedom on the grounds that he and his family had lived as...