*Black history and American abortion are affirmed on this date in 1500. African women endured many crimes against humanity as part of the Middle Passage. White rape from enslavers and forced childbearing to supply labor for the slave base agrarian culture of the 13 colonies, Antebellum South, and more. Beginning in the 17th century, abortion and […]
learn more*Tom Hayden was born on this date in 1939. He was a white-American social and political activist, author, and politician. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to parents of Irish ancestry, Genevieve Isabelle (née Garity) and John Francis Hayden. His father was a former Marine who worked for Chrysler as an accountant […]
learn more*Chet Brewer was born on this date in 1907. He was a Black right-handed pitcher and player scout in baseball’s Negro leagues and National League. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, Chester Arthur Brewer toiled on the mounds of black baseball for twenty-four years. He played with various teams worldwide, including China, Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Canada, […]
learn more*William T. Williams was born on this date in 1942. He is a Black painter and art educator. William T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina. At age 4, his family moved to Queens, New York City, though he spent his childhood summers in Spring Lake, North Carolina. After the family’s move to […]
learn more*The Chicago Seven trial is affirmed on this date in 1969. Originally the Chicago Eight (Conspiracy Eight/Conspiracy Seven) were the defendants, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Lee Weiner. The United States federal government charged them with conspiracy, crossing state lines intending to incite a riot, and […]
learn more*Sandra Cason “Casey” Hayden was born on this date in 1937. She was a white-American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s and is still active. As a fourth-generation Texan, she was born Sandra Cason in Austin, Texas. She was raised in Victoria, Texas, in a “multigenerational matriarchal family” by her mother, […]
learn more*Old Bluff Church held its first service on this date in 1758. Old Bluff Presbyterian Church is a historic church near Wade, Cumberland County, North Carolina. The church congregation was founded during the antebellum era of the American South. Later, its pastor was the Rev. John McLeod, who came from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, […]
learn more*Derwin Brown was born on this date in 1954. He was a Black police captain and the Sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, Georgia. The firstborn of Burvena and George Robert Brown was raised in Long Island, New York, where he attended Woodfield Road School and Malverne Jr. High School for his elementary years and Malverne High […]
learn more*Ketanji Brown Jackson was born on this date in 1970. She is a Black attorney and a federal judge. Ketanji Onyika Brown was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents graduated from historically black colleges and universities. Her father, Johnny Brown, ultimately became the Miami-Dade County School Board; her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at […]
learn more*Stickball’s Black heritage and history are celebrated on this date in 1920. Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, in large cities in the Northeastern United States (especially New York City and Jersey City). The equipment comprises a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spalpeen, pensie pinkie, high bouncer, […]
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