On September 5, 1963 James Baldwin and Malcolm X went head to head in a debate about Black identity in the United States. Take a listen...
Did you know that a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc was the first Black woman General in the United States Army ? Hazel Johnson-Brown became the...
Did you know that the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the United States is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.? In 1981 at the...
The stories of senior members of Black fraternities and sororities are amazing to hear. In 1942, Victor Roberts was one of the charter members of the...
In 1963, more than a dozen African-American girls, between the ages of 12-15, were arrested and locked in a dilapidated stockade for two months without charges....
The stories of senior members of Black fraternities and sororities are amazing to hear. In 2010, Hanief Saterfield shot an interview with Franklin Henderson for the 1911 Project...
It was recently announced that this month a new documentary about Reginald F. Lewis, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi who was famous for being the...
Many know that the FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s, but have you ever seen the letters that they sent him threatening him...
The following photograph depicts the Sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. of New Orleans, as they gather to receive and regale the famous contralto and AKA...
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., was founded on January 9th, 1914. A lot of things have happened in the world since 1914 and to put everything in...
Did you know that a member of Phi Beta Sigma is credited with having invented techno music? His name is Kevin Saunderson and he is considered...
American civil rights attorney, the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and the 14th National President of Delta Sigma...
Did you know that Malcolm X’s wife Dr. Betty Shabazz was a member of Delta Sigma Theta? It is true! Dr. Betty Shabazz, widow of slain...
The brothers of Iota Phi Theta know it, but many outside of their great fraternity don’t know that one of the fraternity’s founders just so happens...
If you want to know about manliness, hard work and grit, look no further than Alpha Phi Alpha’s very own, Woody Strode. Strode was a college...
HBCUs have a long and strong history of athletic programs. For all of you history lovers and football buffs out there we have compiled a list...
On Saturday, Dick Gregory, a pioneering force of comedy in the 1960s who later became an iconic social and political activist died of heart failure at...
Did you know that in the 1850’s a Louisiana scientist claimed to have found a disease called drapetomania which made slaves run away from their masters?...
Did you know that the founding father of the latino-based fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta just so happens to be a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.? The...
Sports teams were one of the ways that Black fraternities showed their influence on college campuses and in the community in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s and...