October 18: John Chavis was born, 1763 First African American to graduate from a college or university in the United States, ... read more »

October 15: Judge Clarence Thomas named the 106th associate justice of the U.S. ... read more »

October 16: Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan gathered one million black men together in Washington DC ... read more »

Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV. ... read more »

According to statistics released by the FBI this month, more than four Black women and girls were murdered each day in the United States in 2020. The uniformed crime reporting statistics revealed that those startling numbers were a sharp increase from 2019. The FBI said it recorded at least 405 additional murders of Black women and girls, but reports have strongly suggested that the number represents an undercount. Those reports don’t surprise or comfort victims’ families but only serve as another reminder about the lack of value attached to the lives of Black females. ... read more »

October 14: Martin Luther King Jr. received a Nobel Peace Prize, 1964 ... read more »

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam's role in keeping people of color out of the profession. ... read more »

A flatbed tow truck from Harris Towing Group sat silently in front of Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover Thursday night, a solemn reminder that Delaware businessman and trailblazer Luke J. Harris Jr. had died at age 76 on Sept. 18. ... read more »

 Longtime residents of the Mobile community called ``Africatown USA'' recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes. ... read more »

A house connected to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now in the hands of a couple who plans to preserve it. ... read more »

October 10: Grammy award winning singer, actress and dancer Mya Marie Harrison was born, 1979 ... read more »

October 9: Death of mathematician Benjamin Banneker (74), in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. ... read more »

Tree planter, Nobel Prize laureate, revolutionary: Prof. Wangari Maathai at 80 ... read more / watch video »

Members of George Floyd's family were in Los Angeles today to launch their ``Thank You Tour'' across the U.S. to show their appreciation for the millions of people who protested in 2020 to demand justice and call for an end to police brutality and racism after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. ... read more »

The brick foundation of one of the nation's oldest Black churches has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon with its past storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans. ... read more »