Today is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of captive Africans at Old Point Comfort in what would later become Fort Monroe in Hampton...

One of the other positive things that happened on Election Night was that the first ever African-American female sheriff in Texas was ele...

The newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture has over 350,000 square feet of exhibit space in the beautifully...

It's been a history making 2016 already for attorney and human rights advocate Fran Watson, who is the current president of the Housto...

While the public inauguration won't happen until Monday, the Houston City Charter mandates that all elected offices start their terms ...

This April 4, 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X at Cleveland's Cory Methodist Church is ranked (number 7) as one of the 100 Greatest ...

History was made last night as Tona Brown stepped on the Weill Recital Hall stage at New York's Carnegie Hall for her show entitled &#...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Freedom Summer, which was a ten week coordinated civil rights campaign organized by t...

"beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Klan terrorist bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL   that killed 4 teenage...

Today is the actual 50th Anniversary of the March On Washington which was capped by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's speech for the...

Today is June 19 or Juneteenth as we call it in the Lone Star State and the 42 other states that recognize it It commemorates the 1865 day...

It didn't take long for reaction to come from the Southern segregationists and Klan terrorists to come in reaction to President Kenned...

Some historians consider the second most important day in the history of the African-American Civil Rights movement to be the April 15, 19...

It's now 45 years since that awful April 4, 1968 day that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated in Memphis, TN at 6:01 P...

It's almost halfway through Black History month 2013 an I realized I haven't done any Black trans history posts yet. My bad, Trans...

Well, did y'all have fun trying to answer the 3rd annual incarnation of the TransGriot African-American Trans History Quiz?    It was...

Today would have been the 100th birthday of iconic civil rights leader Rosa Parks, who was born on this date in Tuskegee, AL in 1913. Sh...

With the confirmation of Sen John F. Kerry to become the next Secretary of State, his now empty Senate seat had to be filled by an appoint...

To no ones surprise, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) chose Rep Tim Scott (R-SC) yesterday to fill resigning Senator Jim DeMint'...