Category: History

WROX Blues Radio Station is a variety AM radio station in Clarksdale, Mississippi. WROX was established and started transmitting on June 5, 1944, its location was at the studios at…

Hotel Theresa, the white brick, terra cotta, 300-room, thirteen story, steel-framed hotel, was for many years the tallest building in Harlem, New York. It opened down the street from the…

Bedford Stuyvesant, New York, is the oldest Black community in Brooklyn. Established by the Dutch in 1636 as part of Breuckelen (Brooklyn), it later became known as Bedford Stuyvesant. When…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!On February 7, 2016, musician Beyoncé Knowles performed her single “Formation” at the Super Bowl 50…

In January 2025, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, a Hawaii historian and social activist attorney wrote the article below describing the campaign to make the Aloha State recognize the birthday of Dr. Martin…

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic. He was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, to Henry Louis Gates Sr.…

Michigan State Representative Amos O’Neal was born on July 17, 1961, in Saginaw, Michigan. He attended Saginaw Public Schools and graduated with a business degree from Northwood University in Midland,…

Harlem began in 1658 as a Dutch village founded by settlers who named it after the city of Haarlem, in the Netherlands. In 1873 the village was annexed to Manhattan.…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!The Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union was established by a small group of Black…

George Carroll made history in 1964, as the first African American to be elected mayor of Richmond, California which made him the first black mayor of any large American city.…