News from the Black Community of Gwinnett County Georgia.
Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, Frances Cress Welsing was a renowned African-American psychiatrist applauded for her work, “The Isis Papers.” She was the middle child of three …
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Civil War Hero, Political Leader During Reconstruction Robert Smalls was a Civil War hero and prominent black political leader during the Reconstruction Era. He was born in 1839 in Beaufort, …
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A Black History Month Notable Everyone Should Know Biography | Stanford University | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute Born: January 23, 1935 Although he avoided publicity …
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BY YEMI TOURE | MARCH 3, 1991 | 12 AM PT | TIMES STAFF WRITER It was only 8:30 on a Friday evening at the carpeted, cozy Eso Won bookstore in South-Central …
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Photo: Fast food workers and union members carry signs as they stage a protest outside of a McDonald’s restaurant in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 12, 2018, the 50th anniversary of …
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By REV. CANON ROSA LEE HARDEN for Mississippi Free Press Growing up in northeast Mississippi in the 1960s, I knew practically nothing about Martin Luther King Jr. But by the …
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The Hooper-Renwick School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has a long and significant history within the Black community of Gwinnett County. Before the desegregation of schools in the 1960s, it was the …
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by Kui Mwai for Blavity.com During the “Battle Tailgate” episode of Netflix’s Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, host Alton Brown dropped some knowledge about Korean fried chicken’s origin, and it …
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Mark Your Calendar and Spread the Word! Monday, February 28, 2022 is #BlackAncestorsDay on Social Media and Across the Internet For 24-hours, we are going to invoke our Black ancestors’ …
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HBO Max’s biopic, Judas and the Black Messiah, premieres on February 12, 2021. In Ryan Koogler and Shaka King’s historical drama, Daniel Kaluuya plays Chicago Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton,, …
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