Howard’s homecoming crowd had a finish to remember. On October 17, the Bison scored twice in the fourth quarter to beat Morehouse 31–17 at Greene Stadium, where Howard Athletics reported 9,995 in attendance. The week around the game brought a…
Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 when the Montgomery bus boycott made him a national figure. Ella Baker was 52. She had already spent years traveling through the South for the NAACP, recruiting members and helping neglected local branches function.…
Fourteen years separated Brown v. Board of Education from Green v. County School Board. In one sense, that seems extraordinary. The Supreme Court had ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954. Yet in 1968, it was still deciding what school…
The first Historically Black Colleges and Universities did not set out to offer a different version of American higher education. They opened because most colleges would not admit Black students. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania dates its beginning to 1837, when…
Detroit’s African World Festival will return to Hart Plaza from July 10 to July 12, 2026. This festival is one of the city’s most significant cultural events along the riverfront. Presented by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American…
