Recently, the Rainbow Push Coalition hosted an inspiring Dr. King Day of Service and Learning, where the powerful message of “Keep Hope Alive” resonated...
Before she would become the Democratic presidential nominee. Kamala Harris with her mother Shyamala Gopalan (Photo: X).
By Ben Jealous
When Kamala Harris was sworn in...
AUGUST 21
1831—The Nat Turner slave rebellion begins in Southampton, Va. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American history....
Select Books Inc. is thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of a groundbreaking book, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy, scheduled for...
Hermene Hartman’s 12-part series debuts today on WTTW and on PBS stations nationwide with “Jesse Jackson Matters.”
Interviews with Hermene Hartman are insightful and engaging.
She...
by Katie Kapurch, Texas State University and Jon Marc Smith, Texas State University
Prior to the release of “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé explained that her album’s...
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...
JAM MASTER JAY
October 25
1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded.
1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general...
THE BANJO by HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
October 18
1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, S.C.
1945—Actor, singer, activist...
O.J. SIMPSON
September 27
1817—Hiram R. Revels is born free in Fayetteville, N.C. Revels becomes the first Black to serve in the United States Senate...
