Given out yearly at the ESPY awards, which were created by ESPN in 1993 to recognize accomplishments in athletics, the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage is unique in recognizing athletes […]
Letter from the Editor July is when summer gets into full swing. It also marks Arthur’s birthday on July 10th. The confluence of events this month—the ESPYS, the 35th anniversary […]
The Measure of A Manby David Paul Morgan Leaders are born to all shapes sizes colors They often lead or are […]
When Arthur Ashe enrolled at UCLA, his choice to attend was certainly influenced by the fact that they had one of the best tennis programs in the country and that […]
In the wake of the Civil War, Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army banded together to form the first Ku Klux Klan in 1865. Very quickly Klan groups spread throught […]
On this day in 1897 Marian Anderson, who would become a world-renowned contralto singer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The eldest of three daughters, the family attended the Union Baptist […]
In 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson died on this day after being shot by a state trooper in Alabama. Born in 1938, Jackson had tried to register to vote for four […]
On this day in in 1870 Hiram Revels became the first African American to take the oath of office as a Senator in the United States. Born in 1827 in […]
Born on this day in 1811, Daniel Alexander Payne became an important force in the African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as the President of Wilberforce University in Ohio. He […]
On this day in 1868 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Massachussets to parents Alfred and Mary Du Bois. W. E. B. Du Bois, as he came to […]