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This Week In Black History February 28-March 5, 2024

Site Editor - February 28, 2024

GARRETT A. MORGAN FEBRUARY 28 1708—One of the first recorded slave revolts in American history takes place on Newton, Long Island (New York). Seven Whites...

This Week In Black History February 21-27, 2024

Courier Newsroom - February 21, 2024

FEBRUARY 21 1933—Song stylist and activist Nina Simone is born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, N.C. She was a child prodigy who was playing the...

This Week in Black History February 14-20, 2024

Courier Newsroom - February 14, 2024

MARIAN ANDERSON FEBRUARY 14 1760—The great religious leader Richard Allen is born in slavery in Philadelphia. After being required to sit in the back of...

Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place

The Conversation - February 10, 2024

by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became...

Renowned Sculptor Richard Hunt, Shaped by Tragedy and Triumph, Dies at 88

Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor - December 18, 2023

When Emmett Till's mutilated body was transported back to Chicago for his funeral, some 100,000 people stopped by Bronzeville's Roberts Temple Church of God...

This Week In Black History October 11-17, 2023

Courier Newsroom - October 12, 2023

October 11 1887—Alexander Miles patents a major safety improvement to the elevator. Miles did not invent the elevator. But he made it safer with...

This Week In Black History March 1 – 7, 2023

Site Editor - March 2, 2023

March 1 1739—The British government is forced to sign a peace treaty with the Jamaican Maroons. The Maroons were escaped slaves or, to put...

This Week In Black History February 22 – February 28, 2023

Courier Newsroom - February 22, 2023

February 22 1950—Basketball legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving is born in Roosevelt, N.Y. He was the most dominant NBA player of his era. The...

This Week In Black History February 8 – 14, 2023

Courier Newsroom - February 9, 2023

In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the "Provisional President of Africa" during a parade on...

Young Musicians Collaborate with Chicago Bulls for Black History Month

Site Editor - February 6, 2023

Musicians from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras were featured in a newly-released video for the Chicago Bulls. Seven young musicians from CYSO, ranging from 9th-12th...