Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first female president of the National Bar Association. – For more information on Black history, arts […]
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This Week in Black History
July 23, 1967 The Detroit Race Riot began after police raided an unlicensed after-hours bar, becoming one of the most violent urban revolts in the […]
This Week in Black History July 14, 1943
July 14, 1943 The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in Diamond, Missouri, becoming the first United States National Monument to honor an African American. – For more information […]
This Week in Black History
July 8, 2000 Venus Williams defeats defending champion Lindsay Davenport to win her first Wimbledon women’s singles title. The Compton native successfully defended her title […]
This Week in Black History
July 1, 1991 Georgia-born attorney Clarence Thomas is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the high court’s first Black justice. Despite […]
This Week in Black History
June 22, 1990 Nelson Mandela speaks to the United Nations Special Committee in New York against apartheid, saying nothing has occurred in South Africa to […]
This Week in Black History
June 16, 1970 Kenneth A. Gibson is elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the first Black man to lead that city. Gibson later became the […]
This Week in Black History
June 11, 1959 Charlie Sifford became the first African American to play in the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, […]
This Week in Black History
June 2, 1875 James Augustine Healy, a Roman Catholic priest in Portland, Maine, became the first black Catholic bishop in the United States. Healy’s mother […]
This Week in Black History May 27, 1958
Post to Features and This Week in Black History with photo BLACK 052523 Ernest Green, who joined eight Black classmates in challenging racial segregation in […]