November 4, 2008, brought to a close the longest, costliest, and most eagerly anticipated presidential election in history. The campaign itself was historic – both because of the vast sums of money spent by both sides and the presence of…
The Short‑Lived Promise of ’40 Acres and a Mule’ As the Civil War was ending, recently freed Black people were promised land to start independent lives—but Lincoln’s assassination led to that plan’s demise. “What do you want for your own…
For his peace mediation during the first Arab-Israeli war, American diplomat Ralph Joseph Bunche receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Bunche was the first African American to win the prestigious award. Read more…
Just remember, Black people didn’t love Obama either… and he was Black! Black people, a group with a very long history of racially charged actions and behaviors behind us, continue to avoid unity in any way that we possibly can.…
Facing racism and segregation in their own country, the Harlem Hellfighters became one of the most decorated American combat units serving in World War I. Read more moRead Black Heroes Throughout US Military History Meet the standout soldiers, spies and homefront…
Racial violence flares Racial violence flares aboard U.S. Navy ships on October 12, 1972. Forty-six sailors are injured in a race riot involving more than 100 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk en route to her station in the…
Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the…
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…
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…