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Faces of Black Excellence
May 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Remembering Jim Kelly, first black martial arts film star who starred alongside Bruce Lee in ‘Enter the Dragon’
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May 29, 2020 at 04:00pm
Sugar Ray Leonard, the boxer who came out of retirement to win world titles in five weight classes
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May 28, 2020 at 03:00pm
Stewart Fulbright, Tuskegee Airman who became professor emeritus at NCCU
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May 28, 2020 at 02:00pm
This is how Accra’s flour queen Rebecca Aryeetey financed a party to gain Ghana’s freedom
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May 25, 2020 at 12:00pm
With 50 honorary doctorates, Gordon Parks captured black triumphs and exposed injustices
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May 25, 2020 at 08:00am
Benjamin Spencer becomes the first Black dean of America’s oldest law school
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May 24, 2020 at 03:00pm
Redd Foxx, the early comic star whose comedy album sold over 15m copies while being ‘dirty’
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May 23, 2020 at 01:00pm
Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV
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May 22, 2020 at 03:00pm
How racism pushed Margot and Norton, a black ballroom dance couple to pass as ‘hispanic’ to be hired
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May 22, 2020 at 01:00pm
Hubert Julian, first black parachutist who flew over Garvey rallies and landed at feet of Haile Selassie
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May 22, 2020 at 09:30am
Wilson Jerman, White House butler who served 11 POTUS dies with COVID-19
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May 21, 2020 at 04:00pm
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the fearsome boxer with a lethal left hand
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May 20, 2020 at 12:00pm
Thomas Hearns’ powerful right hand that knocked out 13 professional opponents
