August 25, 1927: Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina on August 25, 1927. At an early...
Black History
August 24, 1987: On this day, the world lost a great advocate of civil and gay rights...
August 23, 1900: The National Negro Business League was founded in Boston, Massachusetts with Booker T. Washington...
August 22, 1989: 30 years ago today Black revolutionary icon Huey Newton was killed in the streets...
August 21, 1831: This was the start of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt that took place in Southampton...
