*Rosemary Sadlier was born on this date in 1977. She is a Black Canadian social justice activist, researcher, author, and consultant. Born and raised in Toronto, she has teaching and social work degrees. Her roots in Canada reach back to pre-Confederation: her mother’s family can be traced to 1840, while her father’s ancestors arrived in […]
learn more*On this date in 1977, TransAfrica was formed. This advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., seeks to influence the United States’ foreign policy concerning African and Caribbean countries and all African diaspora groups. TransAfrica Forum was founded on July 1, 1977, after being conceived a year earlier at a Black Leadership Conference convened by the Congressional Black Caucus in September 1976. A committee consisting of Randall Robinson, Herschelle Challenor, and […]
learn more*On this date in 1980, the National Association of Black & White Men Together (NABWMT) was formed. The NABWMT is a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization committed to fostering supportive environments wherein racial and cultural barriers can be overcome, and the goal of human equality realized. To these ends, we engage in educational, political, cultural, and social […]
learn more*On this date in 1980, The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) was formed. PISAB is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. Their beginning came from a meeting at the Rev Dr. C.T. Vivian’s home in Atlanta, GA. Then, Ann Braden and others officially met […]
learn more*Ijeoma Oluo was born on this date in 1980. She is a Black writer, Information Literacy Ambassador, and poet. From Denton, Texas, her father, Samuel Lucky Onwuzip Oluo, is from Nigeria and Black, and her mother, Susan Jane Hawley, from Kansas, is white. Her younger brother is jazz musician Ahamefule J. Oluo. She married Chad […]
learn more*The birth of Christiana Carteaux Bannister is celebrated on this date in 1819. She was a Black business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist in New England. Christiana Carteaux was born Christiana Babcock in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. She was born to African and Narragansett Native American parents. She was a descendant of enslaved Blacks who worked the plantations […]
learn more*On this date in 1981, we affirm the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the organization carries out initiatives on both the domestic and international levels. This is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded by Coretta Scott King. She started the organization in the basement of the couple’s home in the year following her husband’s […]
learn more*On this date in 1984, Black Women Stirring the Waters, a black women’s discussion group founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, was founded. Clara Stanton Jones and Aileen Clarke Hernandez conceived the group. It has no formal structure, taboo subjects, or membership requirements other than an interest in the dialog. Black Women Stirring the […]
learn more*Monica Carrillo was born on this date in 1984. She is an Afro Peruvian poet and activist. She is from the community of Chincha, Peru. She holds a degree in journalism from the National University of San Marcos in Peru and received her degree in political journalism and cultural analysis from the University of Antonio […]
learn more*On this date in 1984, we celebrate the founding of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW). NCBW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the educational, political, economic, and cultural development of African American women and their families. The NCBW founding chairs were Shirley Chisholm and Dr. C. Delores Tucker. Other notable NCBW […]
learn more*The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) was founded on this date in 1987. Founded in Washington, D.C., N’COBRA is an organization that advocates for financial compensation for the descendants of formerly enslaved people in the United States. The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America spreads information and supports the […]
learn more*Colin Kaepernick was born on this date in 1987. He is a Black civil rights activist, an American football (NFL) quarterback, and a retired free agent. Colin Rand Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, who is white. His African American father separated from Russo before Kaepernick was born. Russo placed him up for adoption with a white […]
learn more*The founding in 1988 of the organization Amer-I-Can is celebrated on this date. Amer-I-can is composed of a non-profit organization, The Amer-I-can Foundation For Social Change and a for-profit organization The Amer-I-can Program, Inc.
learn more*Nkosi Johnson was born this date in 1989. He was an African activist for AIDS; the Black face of the disease in South Africa.
At the age of two, his mother, who was terrified of her community’s reaction, if it were known that she and her child were infected, left Nkosi at a care centre for HIV-positive people. One of the directors of the center was Gail Johnson, took Nkosi home and became his de facto foster mother. For most of his 12 years his family could not afford the medicines that would probably have kept him alive through adolescence, and maybe even into adulthood.
learn more*The National Civil Rights Museum was established on April 23, 1991. The Institution is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the American abolitionist and American civil rights movement from the 17th century to the present. The site opened as the 16-room Windsor Hotel in 1924 […]
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