Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

One of the final events of Stan State’s Black History Month commemoration is a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Angela Davis –– an author, political activist and professor –– spoke Feb. 4 at Ford Hall for a conversation event titled, “We ...

He also pardoned Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940 ... who renamed the months and the days of the week after episodes in his autobiography and who spent $12 million on a huge statue of himself ...

including late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey Milley was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, and attended Belmont Hill School, where he played hockey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1980, ...

Sole's Mom (18:28); and Jamaican-American poet Geoffrey Philips tells us about his graphic biography of Black nationalist hero Marcus Garvey for young readers, My Name Is Marcus (34:56).

1820—The first organized emigration of Blacks from the U.S. back to Africa occurs. Eighty-six free Blacks leave New York Harbor on a ship named the “Mayflower of Liberia.” The group lands on the West ...