How Ike Turner Invented Rock ‘n Roll. Because he did
The First African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in North America and first brick structure owned by African Americans in the state of Georgia
Four young black men — the Greensboro Four — held a peaceful sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and the world noticed
In the early 1800s, slaves fled the South for freedom. Many headed north, some as far west as Colorado, and helped heroically along the way
The Barack Obama Presidential Center is coming to Chicago’s South Side
American Author James Baldwin found refuge and was most productive in France’s Saint-Paul-de-Vence
The Lorraine Motel was a black-owned, integrated hotel. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., their guest and friend, was assassinated there
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads
Rosa Parks’ simple, defiant gesture in 1955 changed America forever. This was her route. Plus, what happened to the bus…
The birthplace of jazz! What a wonderful world!
In late summer 1955, Emmett Till was murdered, for whistling at a white woman outside Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market
