On This Day February 5
On this day in 1994, Bryon De Le Beckwith was convicted for the 1963 assassination [...]
The Failure of the Reconstruction
There was a time in American history, where we as a nation had an unprecedented [...]
Josh Gibson
If you’ve ever been to a Major League ballpark, you’ve likely seen the number 42 [...]
Robert Smalls, The Slave That Stole a Confederate Warship
In 1861 Robert Smalls was a slave conscripted into the service of the Confederate Navy [...]
Madam C.J. Walker, The First African American Woman Millionaire
Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana; the first of her family to [...]
Hiram Revels
Hiram Revels was the first African American elected into either house of Congress, representing Mississippi [...]
Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger
What would you say if I told you the real Lone Ranger was a black [...]
Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman
Before Charles Lindbergh and before Emelia Earhart, there was Bessie Coleman. In an age when [...]