The Netflix movie “The Harder They Fall”. The movie assembles cast black actors to play legendary Black western figures from acro…
Henry Johnson while on watch in the Argonne Forest in France on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid, killing multiple Germa…
In 1951, a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. While she was being treated at Johns Ho…
Black Eden was the Town of Idlewild, Michigan, from 1912 through the mid-1960s. Idlewild had an active year-round community and w…
An explanation the life and death of Fred Hampton. Hampton was a young, gifted leader with a talent for organizing people who …
The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, …
The Black Panther Party emerged at a time of political activism and excitement at the possibility of radical social change. While…
During the late 60s no Black Power group grew more than The Black Panther Party but with that growth came government repression. …
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby …
Thurgood Marshall—perhaps best known as the first African American Supreme Court justice, He also had a profound contribution to …
Lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offend…
The end of World War I fostered a new way of thinking for African Americans. Thousands of African Americans migrated from the Jim…
Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June …
The entire 35 blocks of the Greenwood commercial district were completely destroyed. A total of 191 Black-owned businesses, sever…
It was May, 30th 1921 and on this day Dick Rowland was on his way to the Drexel building. Which was mostly closed for the Memoria…
Greenwood was named the town after another town called Greenwood, Mississippi. The first store was a grocery store on the corner …
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturns in the industrialized world, While no group escaped the economic devastatio…
The United States vs. Billie Holiday is set primarily during the height of Holiday's career in the later period of the legendary …
Billie Holiday, one of the most famous of jazz singers of all time and was a superstar of her day. She first rose to prominence i…
Percy Julian was a pioneering chemist who with only a 10th grade education went on to earn his Ph.D. His research into chemical s…
Black History Month is an annual celebration of the study and achievements of African Americans and a time when they weren't bein…
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, was an unethical natural history study conducted between 1932 and 197…
The last episode in the 4 part series about the Negro Leagues, I discuss the peak of the Negro National League during World War 2…
Joshua Gibson was a Negro League catcher and one of the greatest home run hitters in the game’s history. Known as “the black Babe…