Venus and Serena Williams grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, California and were coached by their father…
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer and musician. He’s also a conductor, musical…
The fight to end segregation was a three-pronged attack. The beloved Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. evoked sympathy from the…
Russell Simmons is best known for being the Co-founder of Def Jam Records, and was a force behind the hip-hop…
The artistry leaps off the stage as black legs, brown arms and high-yellow bodies soar through the air in dances…
You may know Sidney Poitier as the first black man or woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actor,…
W. E. B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor, is most known…
written by @itsthecaptain Magic Johnson is in many ways the starting point guard for Black America. To really register this,…
Michael Jackson‘s pop-culture defining “Thriller“ music video helped usher in the MTV era, yet the song itself isn’t even among…
Barack Obama, his story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family.…
Arguably the G.O.A.T. in the NBA, professional basketball player and entrepreneur, Michael Jordan was born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn.…
Before Deion Sanders called himself “Primetime,” before T.O. (Terrell Owens) had a reality show, there was Jim Brown. He was…
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio as the second of four children in a black working-class family,…
Black history, our history, American history is a complicated matter riddled with facts that make us proud and others that…
written by @itsthecaptain The TV world truly wasn’t ready for a man like Arsenio Hall! Perhaps that was the gift…
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, the man the world later know as Malcolm X or even El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, helped…
The arrival of Kirk Franklin on the gospel music scene was, without a doubt, a landmark in Gospel music history.…
As accomplished as NBA legend Bill Russell was on the court, he was also a giant off the court. Why…
Willard Christopher “Will” Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an…
When you hear the name Bob Marley you may think of his long hair dreads or ganja, but Bob Marley…
Baseball purists and the media may still obsess over how Barry Bonds broke Hammering Hank’s home run record, but Hank…
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child,…
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