Orangeburg Massacre took place on February 8, 1968 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Highway patrolmen and a police officer opened fire on Black students killing three and wounding 28. It was the first recorded time that police killed student protestors at an American university. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Orangeburg Massacre"Which author would you love to have dinner with? I would love to have dinner with Maya Angelou.
Read moreIron Riders in 1897 20 Black soldiers from the Buffalo Soldiers rode on bicycles (to replace horses) from Fort Missoula Montana to St. Louis, Missouri a distance of 1900 miles. It took 41 days for the mission. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Iron Riders"Fela Kuti (1938-1997) of Nigeria posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, become the first African artist to receive it. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Fela Kuti"If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say? I my future self could send me one sentence I hope it would say: “love yourself first, forgive everyone. Have joy.”
Read moreBenin in 2026 continued an initiative for citizenship for Black Americans. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Beninese citizenship for Black Americans"Shawna Cooper Whitehead is the first woman and first Black woman appointed to be president of Regis University in Denver, Colorado in 2026. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Shawna Cooper Whitehead"What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught? I wish schools taught folks the importance of taking care of your mental health.
Read moreAfua Kyei born in 1982 in London to Ghanaian parents in 2026 she was names the most influential Black person in the UK on the Powerlist. BlackHistoryEveryday.com
Read more "Afua Kyei"Sam Nordquist, 24, a transgender man, was killed and tortured in 2025 in Hopewell, New York, BlackHistoryEveryday.com
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