by MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS James Egert Allen, Harlem Middle School teacher who guided James Baldwin and worked 50 years to bring Black history to NY schools. (Photo from back cover of his book “The Negro in New York,” published in 1964 and now out of print) Credit: The Negro in...

by MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS James Egert Allen, Harlem Middle School teacher who guided James Baldwin and worked 50 years to bring Black history to NY schools. (Photo from back cover of his book “The Negro in New York,” published in 1964 and now out of print) Credit: The Negro in...

Huey Newton *Huey Newton was born on this date in 1942. He was a Black activist. Huey Percy Newton was from Louisiana and was the youngest of seven children. During World War II, his father moved the family to Oakland, California. Newton began to rebel as a teenager, joining a gang...

Delilah Beasley was only recently brought to our attention and given her remarkable career as a crusading journalist and historian she warrants more than a passing nod. She was born Delilah Leontium Beasley on September 9, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the oldest of five children to Daniel Beasley, an...

An advertisement in a recent Sunday New York Times featured the upcoming Netflix film “The Six Triple Eight,” a true story about an all-Black female postal unit during World War II. The film will air on Dec. 20 and is a Tyler Perry production. It is based on an...

Bobby Seale (born October 22, 1936) is an African American revolutionary, political activist and author. Seale co-founded the Marxist–Leninist and Black power political organization the Black Panther Party (BPP) with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense", the Party's main practice was monitoring...