Van Johnson and the memoir that tells his tragic story, Framed and Profiled (Photo Provided).
BHM Our Ancestors: Honoring the Pioneers – Stories about our...
By Mustafa Ali
This article was originally published on Word In Black.
Sixty years since the bullets flew inside the Audubon Ballroom, the echoes of Malcolm X’s...
Revlon General Chandra Coleman, Creme of Nature Co-Founder Theodore Ted Manuel and new Chief Brand Officer Keke Palmer (Photo Credit: Tacuma Roeback).
BHM Living Legends:...
February 5
1866—Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, one of the great White heroes of Black history, offers his famous amendment to the Freedman’s Bureau bill to...
JANUARY 15
1908—Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Black Greek letter sorority, is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., by Ethel...
January 8
1866—Fisk University is founded in Nashville, Tenn., for recently freed slaves by the American Missionary Association. The college grows to become one...
Mamie Till-Mobley watches the body of her son, Emmett, being lowered into his grave. Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images
JANUARY 1
1804—Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims the...
