What many people may not know is that twenty-five years before he launched his historic 1988 presidential campaign and delivered the “Keep Hope Alive” speech, he was elected as president of the student government association at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State
By Russ McQuaid When Leon Bates’ grandfather would travel Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky as an International Representative of the United Auto Workers union in the forties, fifties and sixties, he always carried extra white shirts so he could look fresh coming off the road and a satchel with a pair of important books
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Courtesy of South Carolina State University South Carolina State University is set to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre on Saturday, Feb. 8, with a series of reflective events beginning at 11 a.m. in the Martin Luther King Auditorium on campus. This solemn observance will pay tribute to the lives lost and impacted
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Central Jersey’s only musem dedicated to African American history is hoping to expand. The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) is applying for funding from the state’s Green Acres Program to buy property on Hollow Road on Sourland Mountain. The purchase will expand the nonprofit museum’s African American history campus and and allow for the preservation
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By Jade Flury The 10th Annual African American History Parade and Symposium took over the streets of downtown Houston on Saturday. The event was organized by The Houston Sun Foundation during Black History Month. Claude Cummings, of the International President of Communication Workers of America, was the 2025 Grand Marshal. He was joined by the
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Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The group
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By Rashad Grove The formation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been critical to the development of Black life in America. Alongside houses of worship and business entities, HBCUs are some of the oldest institutions perpetually owned and managed by African Americans. As defined by the Thurgood Marshall Fund, HBCUs were “established in the
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By Antonio Harvey The efforts of the Little Rock 9 (LR9), the first Black students to integrated Central High School in the early part of the civil rights movement, is well-documented in African American history. The students obtained that notoriety because of the usage of television in the 1950s. About four years after the LR9
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Written By Lexx Nunn In 1926, Woodson a historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) established Negro History Week to promote the achievements of Black Americans. Proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, he chose to celebrate the second week of February to coincide with the
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Written By The Associated Press The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly
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By Cedric Mobley The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (LL.D. ’57) visited and spoke at Howard several times, but it could not have been more fitting that Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech at Howard was to deliver the Gandhi Memorial Lecture on November 9, 1966, just a few weeks before the university’s 100th
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