On this day, we pay homage to Lawrence Douglas Wilder, the first African American in the United States to be elected #governor of a state...

On this day, we pay homage to Gerald "Jerry" Lawson! In 1976, this Queens, New York native led a team of engineers who invented the first...

On this day, we pay homage to Jan Matzeliger! This self-educated, African American -- "whose father was a Dutch engineer and mother was...

"Locke is best known as the creator of the philosophical concept New Negro which would initiate the Harlem Renaissance (1925–1939), a...

Someone tread the path before us. Someone made a way. Someone saw the unimaginable and endured the inconceivable... just so we could be...

What is America without the generations of blood, sweat, tears, muscle, mental, visions, ideas, songs, drums, traditions, inventions, and...

Let us close out this wonderful Wednesday by speaking to the excellence that is Black excellence. Our history-- #BlackHistory -- has been...

This fight...the fight for equality, #justice, civil rights, and simple humane treatment...has been a long, tedious, and deadly fight. It...