In 1939, Billie Holiday rode the service elevator in a midtown Manhattan hotel on her way to sing on stage. Of…
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After Brazil lost the 1950 World Cup final to Uruguay, a 9 or 10-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento, now better…
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Before Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and others raised the bar for what Black and female politicians could accomplish…
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James Baldwin was one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement. The author was born in 1924 in…
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For nearly three decades, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, often called the “First Lady of the Struggle,”…
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As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot…
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One of 17 children born to formerly enslaved people, Mary McLeod Bethune spent the first few years of her life picking cotton…
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On July 13, 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida acquitted George Zimmerman of murder charges after he’d shot a Black…
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Like so many times before, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were sitting in their Royal Box at the Royal Opera…
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Queen Elizabeth II of England is the single biggest landowner in the world. Her sister, Princess Margaret, meanwhile, had a…
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