One of the things that pissed me and many folks off last week was the release of a trailer for the upcoming Roland Emmerich directed crime...

August 6 is also the day 50 years ago that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.   I find it delicious...

70 years ago on this date in 1945, the first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by a lone B-29 bomber...

On this day last year, after a long combined Houston City Council meeting that saw over 200 speakers spend one minute each pro and con de...

America, we finally have a United States Attorney General! She had to wait over 160 days for it,  but Loretta E. Lynch is now officially t...

It's been long since overshadowed by the 2002 opening of NRG Stadium, but fifty years ago on this date the Harris County Domed Stadium...

150 years ago today CSA General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia after abandoning the Richmond-Petersburg area, headed west i...

Ever since I was first sent notice of it by Dr. Susan Stryker, I was excited to learn and talk about the Dewey's Lunch Counter Sit In an...

Today is the 13th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks that targeted the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon i...

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 ...

Yesterday The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History added hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects to its col...

The Watergate saga came to an end when embattled President Richard Nixon, who was about to become the first president to be impeached and ...

After blasting off from Pad 39A in Florida and a three day journey to enter lunar orbit, the world is waiting as astronauts Neil Armstron...

I'll have another reason to watch the August 25 Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast on NBC besides wondering if Kerry Washington and Joe Mor...

I was a mere toddler when this event happened, but it was a critical one in determining the type of America I got to grow up in as an Africa...

June 28, 1969 was the hot, sultry New York night 45 years ago when during another one of those harassing police raids on the Stonewall Inn...

Over the weekend a discussion started on the Facebook page of a Latino friend in which he expressed his disgust at seeing a Confederate fl...

I wrote last year about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led to a global nuclear war.   Today is the 30th an...