Black History X

The facts, then. In 1976, a Black engineer from Brooklyn named Gerald "Jerry" Lawson led the team that released the Fairchild Channel F, the...

The facts, then. In 1977, a 19-year-old striker from French Guiana signed for West Bromwich Albion. His name was Cyrille Regis. Within two years,...

On July 5, 1975, a 31-year-old Black man from Richmond, Virginia, walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon. He was about to play Jimmy Connors,...

In 1957, a 29-year-old woman from Harlem stood on Centre Court at Wimbledon and lifted the trophy. She was the first Black champion in...

The facts, then. On January 17, 1961, a 35-year-old man was led from a jeep at an airport in Elisabethville, Katanga. He had been...

The facts, then. On August 22, 1964, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic...

A ship called Jesus of Lübeck launched from a German port around 1520. It was a carrack, a large sailing vessel weighing about 700...

On June 8, 1958, a 19-year-old Black man named David Isom walked up to the ticket window at the Spa Pool in St. Petersburg,...

The facts, then. Hannibal Barca was born in Carthage in 247 BCE. His name in Punic meant "grace of Ba'al", the supreme god of...

The facts, then. Ernest Everett Just was born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina. His father and grandfather were builders. When Just...