Category: Black History

Did You Know a Black Newspaper Once Saved Lives by Exposing Lynching to the World? If you want to understand how fearless journalism can bend history, don’t start in a modern newsroom. Start in the 1890s, in Memphis, where a Black woman used a Black-owned newspaper to do what much of mainstream America refused to […]

Did You Know Enslaved Africans Were America’s First Engineers, Architects, and Skilled Builders? American slavery is often described in one dimension: brute labor in fields. That picture is incomplete, and it hides one of the most consequential truths about how the United States was built. Enslaved Africans were not only forced agricultural workers. Many were […]

Did You Know a Black Woman’s Math Put Astronauts in Space, While She Was Forced to Use a “Colored” Bathroom? America’s space race is remembered through rockets, astronauts, and Cold War rivalry. Less often remembered are the people whose calculations made those launches survivable, and whose brilliance coexisted with everyday humiliation. One of them was […]

Did You Know the First Open-Heart Surgery Was Performed by a Black Surgeon No One Talks About? It’s a headline built to stop a scroll, and it points to a real story that deserves attention. But the history is slightly more complicated than the claim suggests. A Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, performed a […]

Did You Know a Black Man Designed Washington, D.C., and His Name Was Almost Erased From History? Washington, D.C., is often described as a city built to symbolize democracy, its broad avenues, ceremonial spaces, and monumental core carefully engineered to project permanence and power. What is far less known is that a Black man played […]