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In May 1921, 19-year-old Black shoeshiner Dick Rowland entered the Drexel building at 319 South Main Street to use the Blacks-only restroom which was on the top floor. The building...

María Elena Moyano Delgado was an Afro-Peruvian community organizer and mother whose assassination by the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) sparked a public outcry bringing attention to her work and the...

The Little George Ship Revolt took place on the British ship Little George in June 1730. The little-known revolt was one of the most successful uprisings of captured Africans on the high seas in...

Black Americans venturing overseas during the interwar period are usually presented as fleeing from Jim Crow oppression east to Europe (think Josephine Baker in Paris). Less known are their experiences...

In 1942, during World War II, British military officials authorized the construction of two military air bases in the then British colony of the Bahamas. The main base would be...

Chattel slavery was practiced in the Danish West Indies from around 1650 until July 3, 1848, when Colonial Governor Peter von Scholten issued an emancipation proclamation. The Danish government, however,...

Following the passage of the 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865, slavery was officially ended throughout the United States, including in the eleven former Confederate States. Almost immediately governments in...

If you can’t recall a single African warrior you learned about in school, it doesn’t mean you were a terrible student of history. It means your school, like most schools...

Some may refer to Bianca Belair as a rookie, but she has achieved so much in a year that many only aspire to do in WWE history. After becoming the...

For the first time in the history of the High School NCA National Championship, an all-Black cheerleading squad has won the title. “We are literally Black girl magic in the making,”...

Renee Montgomery put her WNBA career on hold in 2020 to use her platform to fight against social injustice. Lebron James’ tweet on putting “together with an ownership group for the Dream”...

Notable Black individuals throughout history are all stacked together on a card deck created by Keara Johnson when she was a senior at the University of Missouri. The Revolution Card...