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Our History Makers: Martin Luther King Jr.
Northerners often depict the South as backwards and racist. During the Civil Rights Movement, the South gave the North plenty of reasons to feel superior.…
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Our History Makers: Langston Hughes
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to…
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Our History Makers: Hank Aaron
Baseball purists and the media may still obsess over how Barry Bonds broke Hammering Hank’s home run record, but Hank Aaron doesn’t care. All Aaron…
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Our History Makers: Bob Marley
When you hear the name Bob Marley you may think of his long hair dreads or ganja, but Bob Marley played a major role in…
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Our History Makers: Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom…
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Our History Makers: Will Smith
Willard Christopher “Will” Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper.…
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Our History Makers: Bill Russell
As accomplished as NBA legend Bill Russell was on the court, he was also a giant off the court. Why else would President Obama see…
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Our History Makers: Kirk Franklin
The arrival of Kirk Franklin on the gospel music scene was, without a doubt, a landmark in Gospel music history. Kirk Franklin (born January 26,…
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Our History Makers: Malcolm X
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, the man the world later know as Malcolm X or even El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, helped spur the growth of Islam…
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Our History Makers: Arsenio Hall
written by @itsthecaptain The TV world truly wasn’t ready for a man like Arsenio Hall! Perhaps that was the gift and the curse of it…
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Our History Makers: Frederick Douglass
Black history, our history, American history is a complicated matter riddled with facts that make us proud and others that make us cringe. It is…
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Our History Makers: Toni Morrison
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio as the second of four children in a black working-class family, Toni Morrison displayed an early…
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Our History Makers: Jim Brown
Before Deion Sanders called himself “Primetime,” before T.O. (Terrell Owens) had a reality show, there was Jim Brown. He was a stud on the football…
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Our History Makers: Michael Jordan
Arguably the G.O.A.T. in the NBA, professional basketball player and entrepreneur, Michael Jordan was born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn. Growing up in Wilmington, North…
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Our History Makers: Barack Obama
Barack Obama, his story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family. Hard work and education as…
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Our History Makers: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson‘s pop-culture defining “Thriller“ music video helped usher in the MTV era, yet the song itself isn’t even among his top 50 Billboard charting…
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Our History Makers: Magic Johnson
written by @itsthecaptain Magic Johnson is in many ways the starting point guard for Black America. To really register this, you have to look outside…
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Our History Makers: W.E.B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor, is most known for his pursuit of social…
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Our History Makers: Sidney Poitier
You may know Sidney Poitier as the first black man or woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, but how many of his…
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Our History Makers: Alvin Ailey
The artistry leaps off the stage as black legs, brown arms and high-yellow bodies soar through the air in dances such as “Revelations.” At an…
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