FBI missing persons poster from 1964 showing Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. Today, June 21st, marks the anniversary of a terrible chapter in the Civil Rights struggle: when […]
This past Friday, Muhammad Ali, 74, passed away in Arizona. One of the greatest athletes of all time, he rose from modest circumstances living under Jim Crow to transcend sport […]
Storming of Fort Wagner by Kurz & Allison February 16, 1863 recruitment ad from Boston newspaper Today, June 3rd 28 marks the anniversary of when one of the first African-American […]
Photo by Gordon Parks for US Office of War Information Originally written in 1961, “Seven People Dancing” by Langston Hughes was just published this week in the New Yorker. Arnold Rampersad, […]
Today is the birthday of playwright and writer Lorraine Hansberry, born on May 19, 1932. She is most famous for her celebrated work A Raisin in the Sun, a play […]
© Sadie_Girl The Kentucky Derby is a time-honored American tradition dating back to 1875. Often considered “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports,” the Derby draws a diverse viewership and […]
As the school year winds down and people take advantage of vacation time and holidays, there are some new cultural activities relating to Arthur Ashe that might be of interest […]
One often hears the names Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. used during conversations about civil disobedience and freedom. It is also well known that King cited Gandhi as […]
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young in 1965 For ArthurAshe.org’s final Black History Month installment, we turn our attention to Andrew Young. […]
Photo by Thomas J. O’Halloran. Photo by Warren K. Leffler. The AALC Black History Month celebration continues with our profile of Barbara Jordan: an American politician, lawyer and educator who, […]