Source: Fotosearch / Getty Garrett Morgan was a master innovator whose legacy continues to uplift and empower. His remarkable story is a testament to how Black ingenuity has not only shaped communitie...
02.11.2026 Blackamericaweb.com and 7 sites
February is Black History Month, a federally recognized observance of the contributions of African Americans throughout American history. It's a time to celebrate and shine a light on some of the hero...
02.12.2026 Sokolovelaw.com
Source: Reach Media / Urban One As we’ve come to understand year after year, day after day, death is an inevitable part of life—a universal truth that spares no one. Yet, despite its certainty, the we...
02.16.2026 Blackamericaweb.com
Erasing Black History Will Not Silence the Truth Efforts to remove exhibits honoring enslaved people at Independence National Historic Park have ignited renewed debate about the erasure of Black histo...
02.12.2026 Spokesman-recorder.com
“History had me glued to my seat. It felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other. ” — Claudette Colvin When Claudette Colvin died this month, too many Americans learned her name for the first time in an obituary. That alone is an indictment. At 15 years old, nine months before Rosa Parks, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail for insisting she had the same right to si...
02.11.2026 Stlamerican.com