Memorial Day has long been known as a holiday to celebrate and honor America’s soldiers. It’s also the holiday that officially kicks off summer, which…
Dr. Olivia Hooker, the first African-American woman to actively enroll in the U.S. Coast Guard, was honored last week with not one, but two commemorative…
When you take a trip to the far north part of Manhattan and visit what had once been the Audobon Ballroom — now redesigned and renamed the…
The body of an Egyptian woman, who died more than 3,000 years ago, was discovered recently. On her head were about 70 or so hair…
How often have you heard it said that black Americans don’t support each other economically? It’s a common refrain in conversations around sociopolitical uplift for…
Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…
A brand new infographic highlights just how white and male the Academy Awards really are. According to research by book publisher Lee & Low, since the…
Beyonce doesn’t know how to do anything else but win. After dropping a surprise album that sold more than 600,00 copies in three days, Bey…
When I first heard about Darrell Wallace Jr. being the first Black man in fifty years to win a NASCAR series race, my first…
The letters written by civil rights leader and world icon, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are floating around in different places around the country. One…
The origin of the word Halloween came from a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even (“evening”), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. All Hallows Day is the All Saints Day celebrated on 1 November in Western Christianity.
Kathryn Bigelow made history as she became the first woman to receive the honor – and she beats out her ex-husband James Cameron’s ‘Avatar.’
