Today, Clint Smith will teach you about the legendary writer Toni Morrison. Morrison is best known for her novels which chronicle the experiences of Black Americans throughout history. She was the first Black American Woman to win a...

Music is an integral part of Black American culture. Today, Clint Smith will teach you about rap & hip hop, and the cultural significance of artists including Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, N.W.A., Queen...

Alice Coachman Davis was an athlete who specialized in the high jump. She was the first black woman selected for the U.S. Olympic team and went on to become the first black woman of any nationality to win a gold medal at the Olympics...

Did you know that the practice of inoculation was brought to the West by enslaved Africans? Was the Lone Ranger a Black man? This video is a series of fast facts you may not know about many genres of Black history.

Cathay Williams was an African-American soldier, recognized as the first Black woman to enlist, and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army posing as a man during the American Indian Wars. Notably, she was...

Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Black students who enrolled in Dunbar high school in Arkansas in 1957, reflects on the mob and violence that met her on the first day of that school year. It would take a few days and the interference...

Vivien Thomas was born on August 29, 1910, in New Iberia, Louisiana. He was the son of a carpenter and grandson of an enslaved man. He was a skilled carpenter who saved for seven years to pay for his education but lost it all...

Lena Baker a Black mother of three, was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white-Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke...

Born on the 23rd of march, 1914. He was an African American sportswriter and editor. Credited with the recommendation of Jackie Robinson to Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers.



He died of Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 58...

The Birmingham Children’s crusade of 1963, or the Children's March, was a march of school students aged 7 to 18 in Birmingham, Alabama that started on May 2, 1963.



The purpose of the March was to walk downtown to talk to...

Marian R. Croak is a prolific inventor in the voice and data communication field. Born in 1955 in Pennsylvania and raised in New York City, she is the highest female patent holder at AT&T with 127 patents and counting....

Aside from helping her family (and thousands more) escape slavery, she led troops in combat, cured a disease, and was generally way more of a rebel than history generally portrays her as.



She lived a remarkably full life,...

Alice Allison Dunnigan was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist, and author born on the 27th of April 1906 in Kentucky. She was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials and the...

Lucy Stanton was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies Literary Course from Oberlin...

The body of Fryer, a fifty-three-year-old white woman, was found by her children on the family’s property in Robinson, seven miles southeast of Waco. Jesse Washington, a laborer on Fryer’s farm, was arrested and charged with Fryer’s...

Anna Louise James was the first African American woman to be licensed as a pharmacist in Connecticut. The daughter of a former slave, Anna was raised in Connecticut and graduated from Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. When her brother-in-law...

Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl. Embree was from the state of Missouri, and Black men convicted of rape of a White woman were sentenced to death by lynching.



His...

Correta Scott King is often known for being the wife of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., but she was so much more than that. She was an activist in her own right and came from a family that valued education above all else....

Todays episode features a scathing response to possibly the most ill advised “take me back” letter ever and some wisdom from an ancient African proverb. The response came from a formerly enslaved man named Jourdan Anderson, who lived...

Lumpkin’s jail also known as The Devil Half Acre was one of the most notorious slave sites in the south run by Robert Lumpkin as a slave trading post in 1840. This slave-trading complex operated from the 1830s until the end of the...

Alex Haley served in the U.S. Coast Guard for two decades before pursuing a career as a writer.



He eventually helmed a series of interviews for Playboy magazine and later co-authored The Autobiography of M
alcolm X.
The...

Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."

The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in...

Rapper DMX was one of America's biggest stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and his achievements secured him a spot in music history when he became the first artist to see his first five albums ranked at number one....

On May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States.



White people killed at least 13 black people during the...