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The Free South Africa Movement in the United States began on this day in 1984 with the arrest of Randall Robinson, Executive Director of...

Guion ‘Guy’ S. Bluford was born on this day in 1942. He would become the first Black Man to go to space. He received a PhD in aerospace...

Andrew J. Beard, an African American Inventor, on this day in 1897 received a patent for the Jenny Automatic Car Coupler. This...

Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on this day in 1935. He was one of the major Black politicians to have served Black people, spending...

Ralph J. Bunche was one of America’s major diplomats in the middle of the 20th Century. On this day in 1949, the NAACP honored him with...

Born on this day in 1939 in Tennessee as Anna Mae Bullock, Tina Turner rose to become one of the greatest singers and performers in Rock...

Jaleel White was born on this day in 1976. He is an actor who started out acting in commercials and eventually landed a long-running...

Berry Gordy was the magician who created the Motown music machine. He was born on this day in 1929. Ernie Davis made history when on this...

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born on this day in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas. In a career that spanned decades, he excelled...