FEBRUARY 26
1920—Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) founds the first nationally organized celebration of Black American history (then called Negro History Week), which was...
Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images
by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton
Six decades after Nat...
Bill Robinson dancing with Shirley Temple in ‘The Little Colonel.' (20th Century Fox)
by Cheryl Thompson, Toronto Metropolitan University
Published nearly 170 years ago, Uncle Tom’s...
February 5
1866—Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, one of the great White heroes of Black history, offers his famous amendment to the Freedman’s Bureau bill to...
Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo
by Alex White, University of Cambridge
On August 28 1963, a...
Harvard University abruptly terminated staff contributing to the research component of its Slavery Remembrance Program on January 23, leaving employees without notice and sparking...
