Never Forget: When 600 Black Men Were Secretly Used as Science Experiments by the US Government
The year was 1932 and the Public Health Service agency, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute wanted to study the effects of syphilis on the...
Category : Black History
Never Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas
In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and...
Denzel Washington Raises $17 Million for Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
On a Saturday night in Washington, DC as President Barack Obama was holding court at his last White House Correspondents’ dinner, another star-studded event was...
Never Forget: George Stinney Jr – Executed At Age 14, Exonerated 70 Years Too Late
A miscarriage of justice took place in Alcolu, SC in March of 1944. A 14-year-old boy, George Stinney, Jr. was arrested, after two young white...
Meet Tony Hansberry: At Age 14 He Invented A New Surgical Technique That Is Now Called The “Hansberry Stich”
Tony Hansberry is probably the only 14-year-old boy credited with making a difference in gynecology. For Hansberry, attending a high school with a program geared...
Sibongile Sambo Didn’t Get The Job As A Flight Attendant So She Started Her Own Airline
Sibongile Sambo was declined a position as a flight attendant with South African Airways because she did not meet the minimum height requirement to become...
First All Female Flight Crew Makes History
History has been made in the country of Zimbabwe. For the first time ever, an all-female flight deck crew took command of a commercial flight....
