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February 13, 1965, Malcolm X kept his promise to speak at Detroit’s then Ford Auditorium, despite his home being bombed…
In 1958, Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African American airline flight attendant in the United States. A Journalist and…
After serving 27-years in three different prisons, Nelson Mandela was freed when then South African president, F.W. De Klerk began to…
Oprah Winfrey’s talk show launched today in 1986. Oprah becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated…
Negro History Week was created by Carter G. Woodson February 7, 1926. It became Black History Month 50 years later in 1976.…
In 1993, Tennis great Arthur Ashe passed away after a courageous battle with AIDS he contracted from a blood transfusion…
On February 5th 1990, Barack Obama became the first African American named president of the Harvard Law Review. (BlackFacts.com) Born…
Today in 1913, Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. (BlackFacts.com) Rosa Louise Parks was named the “mother of the…
Today in 1934, Etta Moten sang at the White House for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.This was the first…
A rare photo of Underground Railroad hero and 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman sold at a New York City auction…
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