1928: Singer “Fats” Domino was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of…
1864: After graduating from New England Female Medical College, Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an…
1965: Constance Baker Motley is elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a…
1989: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince win the first Rap Grammy for the hit single “Parents Just Don’t…
Lil Kim called up iPower 92.1 to chit chat with TT Torrez about a lot of different issues that have occurred…
On February 21, 1965, former Nation of Islam leader and influential Black Civil Rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated in…
1940: Soul singer William “Smokey” Robinson born in Detroit, Michigan. Smokey was an original member of Motown’s first vocal group,…
On this day, Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931. She went on to win the Pulitzer Prize…
Today is the birthdate of wildly successful Basketball player and lucrative business man, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Born in Brooklyn, New…
1970: Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world…
1964: Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” recording becomes his first and only number one record.
1946: Tony Award and Emmy Award winning entertainer and dancer Gregory Hines is born in New York City.
1923: The 1st Black professional basketball team “The Renaissance” is formed. They were collectively inducted into the NBA Hall of…
1909 – During a “call to action” meeting led by W.E.B DuBois and attended by many other black scholars and activists,…
On this week’s episode of “Pass The Popcorn” our host Victoria Audele gives us the goods on the movies we…
1990 – After 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa, Nelson Mandela is released from jail and subsequently leads the…
After 12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act…
1986- Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show. It remains in production…
1927 – University of Chicago and Harvard University Graduate, Carter G. Woodson creates Negro History Week. In 1976 it became…
1945-Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae star is born in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. He continues to be an internationally recognized…
1934: Henry “Home Run King” Aaron, baseball superstar was born in Mobile, Alabama. He held the record for most career…
Rosa Parks was born on this day in Tuskeegee, AL in 1913. Ms. Parks earned numerous awards for her life-long…
1956: Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first black student to attend the University of Alabama. She was expelled 3 days…
Eric Holder is sworn in as the first African-American U.S. Attorney General in 2009.
Yesterday we closed our second round of The Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition narrowing down our picks from 32…
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