Thurgood Marshall is best known for his achievements in the courts and for arguing the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. WHO IS THURGOOD? Thurgood Marshall…

Looking back on history, many leaders have left an impression on millions of people. Here are 9 of those undefeated dreamers, doers, great geniuses and silent innovators, record-breakers and icons…

The Abolitionist movement in the United States was an attempt to eliminate slavery in a country that valued individual liberty and believed that "all men are created equal." Slave owners…

Stokely Carmichael was an American civil rights activist, anti-war campaigner, and Pan-African revolutionary remembered fondly for popularizing the slogan "Black Power”. He is also known for leading the Black Panther…

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. The United States Congress recognized her as "The First…

Racism’s existence is tied not to one’s physical features but the social interpretations of those biological variations between individuals. Since the age of colonization and slavery, racism in the US…

W.E.B. Du Bois led the Niagara Movement, a group of Black intellectuals who advocated for complete political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. This approach contrasted sharply with Booker…

On August 21, 1831, Nathanial "Nat" Turner (1800-1831) who was an enslaved man, led his people's rebellion. A new wave of harsh legislation was triggered, preventing enslaved people from getting…

Harriet Tubman was born on March 1822 in Araminta Rose. She was a political activist and abolitionist based in the United States. Harriet Green and Ben Rose, her parents, were…