ROLLINGOUT.COM — There is no question that Atlanta is the best city to visit for a real Black history lesson. With Atlanta playing a major role in...
OAKLAND POST — Nathan “Nearest” Green, born into slavery in 1820, was an African-American head stiller (commonly referred to as a master distiller). Emancipated after the Civil...
MILWAUKEE TIMES WEEKLY — On Monday, April 15, 2019, The Milwaukee Brewers celebrated the 71st anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier during their...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — New Orleans has many historical traditions, however, when the African-American Museum in Tremé closed in 2013, due to financial problems,...
THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE — The Belmont Mansion Museum, a historic stop on the Underground Railroad, was transformed into an appropriate homage on Friday to the person responsible...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned a letter from his cell in the Birmingham Jail, where he and other protestors were...
THE AFRO — April 16, 1862 was the official date that slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C. As a result of President Abraham Lincoln’s Compensated Emancipation Act...
FLORIDA COURIER — At the end of the Civil War, Sidney George Fisher, a White gentleman from Philadelphia, declared, “It seems our fate never to get...
SAN DIEGO VOICE — Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,” recently discussed her novel, the Great Migration, and San Diego’s role in her...
San Diego Voice — She is known as the ‘Moses of Her People.’”
CHICAGO CRUSADER — On August 25, 1619, the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the Colonial Colonies of English North America landed at Point Comfort.
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — For more than 60 years, Lottie Gibson was a one-woman crusader for Greenville’s poor and disenfranchised.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — In September, 1997, Dr. Michael Blakey, former Howard University archaeology professor visited New Orleans.
THE AFRO — Black Love Day, founded by Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, is celebrating 26 years.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — In New Orleans, there is always something to celebrate.
OAKLAND POST — It took 167 years and the forward-thinking citizens of Contra Costa County to seize the moment.
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — San Bernardino Valley College faculty and staff are energized awaiting distinguished scholar Dr. Maulana Karenga.
ROLLINGOUT.COM — When it comes to Black colleges and Universities, the common historical narrative is these schools were founded after the Civil War.
NASHVILLE PRIDE — While this month is Black History Month, let’s not forget that there is a lot of history that occurred in this country that makes...
THE AFRO — Black History Month has long been the opportunity to honor to the impact that African American culture has on the nation.
PASADENA JOURNAL — Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and his family moved to Pasadena in 1920.
The “Black History Seven” is a phrase I created to reference the same people we talk about, read about, and focus on every year during Black...
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THE AFRO — Some of the most nationally recognized Marylanders happen to be Black, were slaves and made a huge impact on American history.
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s home in the historic Vine City neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, will be made accessible to the public.
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