Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1917. Even though Polio left her with a limp,...

An entire year could be spent profiling the hundreds of civil rights leaders who worked tirelessly for abolition, desegregation, and...

As a child born to a middle-class family in 1895, Charles Hamilton Houston already had advantages that most Black children could only...

We’d love to have a full month profiling courageous people who broke down barriers and succeeded against all odds. But what makes stories...

If you’ve ever used the phrase “Kicking ass and taking names,” you have John Oliver Killens to thank for putting your feelings into...

When Charles Drew was born in Washington, D.C. in 1904, school attendance wasn’t required. It wouldn’t become compulsory for another...

In 1896, the Supreme Court’s Plessy vs. Ferguson decision upheld Jim Crow laws, creating the “separate but equal” doctrine that would be...

What do the homes of Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck and the public housing project of Langston Terrace in Washington, D.C....

In 1875, Mary McLeod was the fifteenth of seventeen children born to parents Samuel and Patsy, who’d been enslaved in South Carolina....

Referred to as the “Black Thomas Edison,” Granville Woods held over sixty patents in his lifetime. Thanks to the Northwest Ordinance of...