On April 6, 1909, U.S. citizens Matthew Alexander Henson and Robert Edwin Peary, and four Inuit assistants, became the first human beings to set foot...
The sociological and historical significance of August 25, 1950 was enormous for African-Americans in their pursuit of breaking down color lines and paving the...
James Baldwin was a powerful voice in the modern Civil Rights Movement. As a journalist, he reported on significant historical events, particularly in the...
Delilah Beasley was only recently brought to our attention and given her remarkable career as a crusading journalist and historian she warrants more than...
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...
by Association for the Study of African American Life and History
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various...
Octavius Catto, black baseball pioneer
Because black people were not being accepted into the major and minor baseball leagues due to racism which established the...
by Dominique Lambright, BlackDoctor.org
Even before comparable innovations in other regions of the globe, the ancient Africans had a major impact on medicine. Some of the...
