October 19: First Black Republicans were elected, holding three of the four congressional seats in South Carolina
Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV.
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.
October 13: Garrett T Morgan legitimizes his invention of the gas mask, 1914
October 12: Former New York Knicks Player Charlie Ward Born, 1970
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.
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.
A house connected to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now in the hands of a couple who plans to preserve it.
October 11: Malcolm X gave a profound speech at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighting “philosophy of black nationalism.” 1963
Daniel Robinson’s Father Wants All Missing Persons Cases Treated Equally
Tree planter, Nobel Prize laureate, revolutionary: Prof. Wangari Maathai at 80
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.
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.
Melvin Van Peebles – Wisdom | The Big Heart (2015)
Entry to two Mississippi history museums is free Wednesday to mark the birthday of the late civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, known for saying she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”