african american history

Black history month benefits all Americans.

Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee isn’t famous for singing like her sister Diana Ross, but she is a star in her own right. Dr. Ross-Lee is the…

On February 3, 1989 At the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, professional tennis player Lori McNeil Beat Chris Evert. Lori McNeil going against Steffi Graf in 1994 below. SOURCE: http://blackfacts.com

When we published a Little Known Black History Fact earlier this week, we weren’t expecting such a quick response. After all, the fact was about…

Black people have been fabulous for a long time and author/writer/social media maven Nichelle Gainer knew it. That’s why she created the Tumblr site Vintage…

Harvard professor/TV host and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. isn’t playing when it comes to Black History Month. And you shouldn’t be either, because there…

Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington’s National Mall that will document African-American life. The National Museum of African American History and Culture announced the gift Tuesday and said the museum’s 350-seat theater will be named after Winfrey. Winfrey previously gave the museum $1 million, and the museum says her […]

Indiana’s first African-American physician is being honored on Tuesday, more than a century after his death, with a commemorative grave marker. The unmarked grave that is believed to belong to Dr. Samuel A. Elbert, a physician who faced racial barriers attaining his medical degree at the Medical College of Indiana, will finally be turned into a headstone […]