Category: Black History

Gordon Parks: The Visionary Who Changed How Black America Was Seen Gordon Parks did not just document history, he reshaped it. Through photography, film, writing, and music, Parks became one of the most influential storytellers of the 20th century, using his lens to confront racism, poverty, and injustice while centering Black dignity in a nation […]

The Making of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, at a time when segregation shaped every aspect of Black life in America. What began as a young boy’s anger over a stolen bicycle quickly became destiny when a police officer introduced him to boxing, […]

Sojourner Truth was never meant to be silent, and history is different because she refused to be. Born into slavery in the late 18th century, Truth emerged as one of the most commanding moral voices America has ever produced, challenging slavery, racism, and sexism at a time when Black women were expected to endure quietly. […]

Dorothy Irene Height is often described as “the godmother of the civil rights movement,” a title earned not through symbolism, but through decades of strategic leadership that reshaped American democracy. While history frequently centers male voices of the movement, Height worked behind, and often beyond, the spotlight, ensuring that Black women were not erased from […]

Jackie Robinson is remembered not simply as a baseball legend, but as a transformative figure whose courage altered the trajectory of American sports and accelerated the nation’s reckoning with racial inequality. Born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, Robinson grew up in Pasadena, California, where he excelled in multiple sports. At UCLA, he became […]