U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clifford Sims was born Clifford Pittman in Port St. Joe, Florida, less than an hour south of Tallahassee on the Gulf Coast, on June 18, 1942. Orphaned at an early age, he lived in neighboring Panama City...
Read MorePlease don’t shoot the messenger, but recent polls from Bloomberg and Pew suggest that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is poised to pull anywhere from 14 to 30 percent of the Black vote in his race...
Read MoreIn 1896, when Homer Plessy challenged the new racial caste system that forbade Blacks from sitting alongside whites on trains, the United States Supreme Court held that such “Jim Crow” laws were constitutional. By so...
Read MoreDred Scott was born enslaved in Virginia circa 1800 and in the year 1830, moved along with his then master, Peter Blow, first to Alabama, and then to St. Louis, Missouri. In 1832, Blow died and Scott was sold to Dr. John...
Read More59 years ago today, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, known by most across the globe as the Honorable Minister Malcolm X, was gunned down in New York’s Audobon Ballroom by assassins while his wife, the late Dr. Betty Shabazz, and...
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