This Week in Black History
May 10, 1994 After more than 27 years as a political prisoner, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as the first democratically…
May 10, 1994 After more than 27 years as a political prisoner, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as the first democratically…
April 25, 1944 Frederick Douglass Patterson, the president of Tuskegee Institute, with Mary McLeod Bethune and others, incorporates the United…
April 13, 1964 Sydney Poitier, who died earlier this year, became the first African American to win the Academy Award…
April 13, 1997 Orange County native Eldrick “Tiger” Woods shoots a record-breaking18-under-par, beating the second-place finisher by 12 strokes and…
April 2, 1855 Longtime activist John Mercer Langston, an abolitionist, attorney and diplomat, is elected clerk of an Ohio township,…
March 28, 1966 Bill Russell is named head coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the first African American to coach…
March 20, 1948 Los Angeles actor James Baskett becomes the first Black man to receive an Academy Award when he…
March 5, 1770 Massachusetts sailor Crispus Attucks is shot to death by British Redcoats, reportedly becoming the first patriot killed…
Feb. 29, 1940 Los Angeles actress-activist Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win a coveted Academy Award when…
Feb. 12, 1909 Educator W.E.B. DuBois is one of 60-plus activists who form the NAACP to fight for racial equality…