Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops…
How has the history of Detroit’s Black Greek letter organizations — The Divine Nine fraternities and sororities — helped to produce a safe, welcoming community for African Americans in Detroit, one of America’s largest majority-Black cities? In conjunction with acclaimed documentarian…
ROLLING FORK, Miss.— Martha Morris and James Morris did not think it would take five months after a devastating tornado hit Rolling Fork, Miss., on March 24, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver their temporary housing unit. But…
At nearly three in the morning, Saundra Williams walked across a stage with a cream rhinestone cape around her shoulders, a sash across her torso and a scepter in her hand, ready to be crowned as pageant royalty. Though it…
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An armed group of white supremacists attacks a courthouse guarded by a mostly-Black militia in the town of Colfax, Louisiana on April 13, 1873. A bloodbath ensues, as the militia surrenders and the white supremacists carry out a day-long campaign…
Gov. Reeves Declares Confederate Heritage Month, A 30-Year-Old Mississippi Tradition BY ASHTON PITTMAN APRIL 4, 2023 For the fourth year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive…
Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads, “the right of citizens…
Mar 23 Join us for a captivating conversation about the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black women’s battalion in World War II. Read more… All-Black Female WWII Unit to Receive Congressional Gold Medal March 18, 2022 | By Katie Lange , DOD News | Sorting…
Martin Luther King III Says His Father Is Probably ‘Spinning In His Grave’ Over Attacks Against Voting Rights, Black History In Schools He believes his father would be shocked to see what is happening after all the progress he helped…