Lillian Evanti
Lyric soprano Lillian Evanti (1890-1967) was the first African American to perform with a major European opera company, but she also maintained deep ties to...
Author : joe bodego
The Supremes
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The Supremes, an American pop-soul vocal group whose tremendous popularity with a broad audience made its members among the most successful performers of the 1960s...
Martha and the Vandellas
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Martha and the Vandellas, later known as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, American soul-pop vocal group that challenged the Supremes as Motown Records’ premier female...
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro’
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By Ronald G. Shafer On a hot August day in 1890, delegates gathered at Mississippi’s Capitol Building in Jackson to begin work on a new...
Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’
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“Stop the Runaway,” Andrew Jackson urged in an ad placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804. The future president gave a detailed description: A...
Pan-African movement
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In the nearly half-century between 1900 and 1945, various political leaders and intellectuals from Europe, North America, and Africa met six times to discuss colonial...
Theodore G. Bilbo
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Theodore G. Bilbo was a prominent American politician who left an indelible mark on the nation’s political landscape during the early to mid-20th century. Known...
When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state
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By DeNeen L. Brown In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched...
Mississippi’s Senate voted to send all the state’s Black people to Africa
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By Joshua Benton February 19, 2022 One hundred years ago, the Mississippi state Senate voted to evict the state’s Black residents — the majority of...
The Black Star Line
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The Black Star Line was a historic shipping company established by Marcus Garvey in 1919. The company was founded with the intention of promoting black...