This Week in Black History
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This Week in Black History March 28, 1990
U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Olympic track and field athlete Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal. Owens…
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This Week in Black History March 19, 1966
The Texas Western Miners defeated the University of Kentucky 72-65 to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, becoming the first…
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This Week in Black History March 16, 1827
Jamaican immigrant John Brown Russwurm and New York abolitionist Samuel Cornish launch “Freedom’s Journal,” America’s first Black newspaper. “Too long…
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This Week in Black History March 7, 1965
A group of 600 civil rights marchers was brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama, on what would become known…
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This Week in Black History Feb. 29, 1940
Los Angeles actress-activist Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win a coveted Academy Award when she captures Best…
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This Week in Black History, Feb. 21, 1965
Malcolm X, an African-American Muslin minister and human rights activist who led the Nation of Islam, was shot to death…
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This Week in Black History, Feb. 13, 1920
Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the Negro National League was established by a coalition…
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This Week in Black History, Feb. 8, 1986
Stanford student Debi Thomas becomes the first Black skater to win the women’s singles of the U.S. National Figure Skating…
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This Week in Black History, Jan. 31, 1988
Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to start in an NFL championship game, is named MVP of Super Bowl XXII…
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This Week in Black History Jan. 23, 1977
Alex Haley’s award-winning narrative “Roots” is adapted for television in a landmark mini-series that would explore Black people’s forced journey…
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