This Week in Black History
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This Week in Black History
February 3, 1989 Former St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Bill White is named president of the National League, becoming the…
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This Week in Black History
January 29, 2009 President Barack Obama signs his first bill as president of the United States. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair…
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This Week in Black History
January 19, 1969 Jefferson High School and UCLA graduate Ralph Bunche, the first African American to win the Nobel Prize…
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This Week in Black History
January 14, 1972 “Sanford and Son” debuts as a TV sitcom set in Watts, starring Redd Foxx and featuring mostly…
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This Week in Black History
January 10, 1957 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and 60 other Black activists organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a…
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This Week in Black History
January 3, 1973 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is sworn-in to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming California’s first African-American congresswoman. She…
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This Week in Black History
December 25, 1760 Jupiter Hammon became the first African-American published writer when a poem he wrote, “An Evening Thought,” appeared…
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This Week in Black History
December 18, 2002 A group led by Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, was awarded the NBA’s new…
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This Week in Black History
December 12, 1870 Five years after slavery is abolished, South Carolina laborer Joseph Rainey becomes the first Black person to…
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This Week in Black History
December 2, 1980 Narrowly surviving a contentious fight in the Democratic caucus, California Assemblyman Willie Brown takes his bid to…
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