Black History & Black History Month: Celebrating Black Excellence

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10 Langston Hughes Poems That Capture the Heart of America

The lyrical realism and subject matter of Langston Hughes’ poetry continue to resonate today.

By Adrienne Donica

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Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. - Call to Activism

a statute of four men standing side by side in front of a college building

How the Greensboro Four Began the Sit-In Movement

By Colin McEvoy
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: Timeline of Her Life, Montgomery Bus Boycott and Death

Little Rock Nine Photo Courtesy U.S. Army/Wikimedia Commons

The Lasting Impact of the Little Rock Nine

Birmingham Chlldren's Crusade

The Birmingham Children's Crusade of 1963

Black Sports History

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lonnie johnson holding a super soaker and its us patent while sitting on the grass outside his home, june 1992

How Lonnie Johnson Invented the Super Soaker

The engineer tuned toy inventor gamed up the idea for the water gun while preparing for a NASA mission.

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Trivia You Should Know

Legal Figures

ketanji brown jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving

Linda Brown Smith, left, of Topeka, Kansas, listens to Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, during ceremonies observing the 25th anniversay of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in Columbus, S.C., May 1979. It was Brown's father who initiated the class-action suit in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision against school segregation. (AP Photo)

Linda Brown

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall

Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi

How Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi Created the Black Lives Matter Movement

What started off as a hashtag on a Facebook post has become a national rallying cry for equality.

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Breakthroughs

Arts & Entertainment

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Moments in Black History

Famous Black People

More Black History

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