“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
— James Baldwin
20 Interesting Facts about Jesse Owens
Ida B. Wells Impact on Black History
Barack Obama's Contributions to the Black Community
16 Interesting Facts about Bessie Coleman
Why Martin Luther King Jr Is Significant To Black History
"Watch Night" -History, Tradition, and Facts
Jingle Bells and How It May Be Racist
How Slaves Spent Christmas?
Are Black Friday Slavery Rumors based on a portion of the truth?
Thanksgiving Day for Slaves
Adella Hunt Logan, Educator and Leader of the Women's Suffrage
100th Year Anniversary of the Ocoee Massacre: Their Right to Vote!
The History of Black Voting Rights in America
The 19th Amendment Didn't Allow All Black Women the Right to Vote.
The Tulsa Race Riot was Omitted but Now Rarely Mentioned in Our History Books
The Woman Who Could Cure Cancer Using Laser Technology
The Racial Disparities of the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School.
In 1956, Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick later led the United Nations’ Human Rights Division. She attended Harvard in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down, joining only a handful of women and the only black woman a one year before Ruth Bader Ginsburg started as a first-year student at the school.
The History Behind Black History Month