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In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a ruling that changed the law regarding interracial marriage in the United States.…
Patricia Stephens Due was a civil rights activist who was known to start the “jail-in” protest method. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/37015
The Rufus Buck Gang was a group of black and Creek Indian outlaws who ran through Oklahoma in 1895. The…
Daisy Bates is synonymous with the legacy of Arkansas’ Little Rock Nine. One of only three women to later speak…
Jourdan Anderson was a slave who was freed under the Emancipation Proclamation. Under gunfire, he and his wife, Amanda McGregor,…
It wasn’t called rap back in the 1960s when Pigmeat Markham stepped up to the microphone and, with a rhythmic…
In preparation for this Sunday’s Super Bowl, take a look at the two-hour-long documentary, “Third and Long,” which details the…
In March 1966, Donyale Luna became the first black model to grace the cover of British Vogue. Supermodel Beverly Johnson…
Joe Louis Reliford, the “other Joe Louis,” was the youngest baseball player to appear with a white minor league baseball…
Jazz musician John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts jazz master, was the first black personal manager of major…
In 1958, a landmark civil rights case involving nine-year-old James Hanover Thompson and seven-year-old David “Fuzzy” Ezzelle Simpson sparked international…
October 16, 2011 marked the historic dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. The event…
I think it’s so fitting that we pay tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen on Dr. King’s birthday. Before Dr. King…
Emmett Ashford was the first black umpire in Major League Baseball. He served in the league from 1966 to 1970.…
Stanley Robertson was the first black president for NBC and any major network in the country. Robertson, who was also…
In the month of December, the people of the Netherlands and Belgium look forward to the appearances of SinterKlaas, the…
