A U.S. Supreme Court justice was in the Ku Klux Klan—and he remained on the bench for 34 years
Hugo Black had been associate justice of the Supreme Court for less than a month when the news broke. In September of 1937, an exposé by the Pittsburgh...
Category : Politics
BENJAMIN STERLING TURNER: ENTREPRENEUR, BUSINESS EXECUTIVE & FIRST BLACK CONGRESSMAN FROM ALABAMA
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Benjamin Sterling Turner was born in North Carolina to parents who were slaves on March 17, 1825. Despite his humble beginnings, he became an entrepreneur,...
Jesus Has Done Nothing To Save Africa From European Wickedness For Over 350 Years
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There is a very strong notion and believe by African Christians that Jesus Christ will save them from suffering and reverse the many hurts inflicted...
Loretta Lynch
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Loretta Lynch, in full Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.), an American lawyer who was the first African American woman...
Sharon Pratt Dixon
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Sharon Pratt Dixon was born on January 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlisle Pratt and Mildred (Petticord) Pratt. Carlisle was a Washington, D.C....
Kurt L. Schmoke
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Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949, came from a middle-class background. His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was...
Roland Wallace Burris
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On January 15, 2009, Roland Wallace Burris was sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burris’s appointment made him the third African American U.S....
Woodrow Wilson Goode
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Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the...
Richard Arrington
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Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934, to sharecroppers. He received a Bachelor’s...
Willie L. Brown, Jr.
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Political leader The Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. was born on March 20, 1934, in Mineola, Texas to Minnie Collins Boyd and Willie Lewis Brown,...