September 28: Venus and Serena Williams won the Women’s doubles tennis Olympic Gold Medal in Sidney, Australia, 2000
September 27: Hiram Revels, the first African American Senator, was born in Fayetteville, NC, 1822
September 26: The first public statue in Philadelphia to honor a specific African American was dedicated to Octavius Catto, 2017
September 25: Willard Carroll Smith Jr., aka Will Smith, was born in Philadelphia, PA, 1968
September 24: The National Museum of African American History and Culture was opened to the public, 2016
September 23: Dr. Mary Church Terrell, one of the first African American women to receive a degree, was born in Memphis, TN, 1863
September 22: The International Council on Monuments and Sites recommended that Haiti’s Citadel and Sans Souci Palace become World Heritage sites, 1981
September 21: FIRST PRIME MINISTER / PRESIDENT OF GHANA BORN
September 20: Actress and director, Regina King, won an Emmy Award for her role in the series the Watchmen, 2020
September 19: Tuskegee Institute, known today as Tuskegee University, opened with a total of thirty students, 1881
September 18: The classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was originally published, 1937
September 17: Dr.’s Robert Tanner and George F. Grant entered the inaugural class of Harvard’s School of Dentistry, 1867
September 16: Jan Matzeliger, inventor of the shoe lasting machine, was born in Dutch Guiana, 1852
September 15: “Y’all Hiring?: The Black Teen’s Guide to Navigating Employment” was published by author Albert Phillips Jr. (Twitter) , 2020
September 14: The sitcom 227, starring Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Jackée Harry, and Regina King, debuted, 1985