Abner Louima is an activist against police brutality. In the summer of 1997, he was arrested and severely brutalized by New York police while leaving a club. The Louima case was one of the few times in which a jury trial resulted in...

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States that permitted segregation in everything water fountains to buses to schools. Services were definitely separate in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, but...

Decades before Oprah, Della Reese was the first Black Woman to host a talk show.



Born in Michigan in 1931, Della Reese began making records and performing on television variety shows in the 1950s. Reese was the first black...

Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old man, was fatally shot on November 20, 2014, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, by a New York City Police Department officer. The two police officers were patrolling stairwells in the New York City...

Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American female star-route mail carrier in the United States.



Born Mary Fields in around 1832, Fields was born into slavery, and like...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century born on the 20th March 1915 in Arkansas, U.S. She was a talented singer, songwriter, and recording artist who attained popularity in the 1930s and...

Anna Arnold grew up in Anoka, Minnesota. Even though veryone was white except her family, she did not experience segretation growing up. However, when she went out into the world, she found that she had to fight for people to see her...

A sundown or sunset town was a city, town or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark.



The term sundown came from the signs that were posted at the towns borders stating "Negro, Don't Let the Sun Set On You...

Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, a writer, an inventor and the man who may have completed the design for Washington DC Capitol City of the United States of America from...

A quick overview of famous Black women in history and a bit about what they have accomplished.

Cicely Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress and fashion model.



With a career span of more than seven decades, she was a recipient of several awards (three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel...

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on...

Sarah Elisabeth Goode was an American inventor and the first known African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. She invented the folding bedm which was the precursor to the murphy bed.

Bessie Coleman was one of 13 children born to Susan and George Coleman, who both worked as sharecroppers.



In 1915, at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a ma
nicurist....

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician, attorney and also the vice president of the United States.



A member of the Democratic party, she assumed office as the vice president on January 20, 2021, and became the...

Ghanaian-American creative director Virgil Abloh broke boundaries in the tradition-soaked fashion industry, bringing streetwear to the highest levels of the luxury market, as well as becoming one of the few Black designers to...

Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone was an American inventor, philanthropist, and businesswoman regarded as the first black woman to become a millionaire.



Hugely recognized for her hair products the "Wonderful Hair Grower", her...

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist.



She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...

Tulsa, Okalahoma's Greenwood District was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States in the 1920s and was known as "Black Wallstreet." Many of the White citizens of the city resented Greenwood's...

My son came home from school, told me that his school wasn't doing anything for Black History Month and then just stood there looking me in the eye like "So what you gonna do Dad." So I stepped up and recorded this episode about famous...

Video: Martin Luther King Jr. | An Inspirational Rap Song

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Learn all about the Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr and how he rose to become one of the greatest men in History by his...