| 2025 |
Columbia University complies with the Trump administration’s demands to put the School of Middle Eastern Studies under receivership. |
| 2025 |
Step Right Up, and Get Your Ticket to The Greatest Show on Earth |
| 2025 |
How Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC Came to Symbolize the Movement’s Tombstone |
| 2025 |
Unearthed Bones Reveal a Graveyard for Maryland’s Enslaved, A Funeral Pyre for Democrats Nationwide |
| 2022 |
Scapegoat |
| 2022 |
Lula is returned to the presidency in Brazil |
| 2022 |
No Justice, No Peace, No Voting, No Piece |
| 2020 |
The 2020 Census shows that the District’s African American population has plummeted to 41 percent from roughly 70 percent in 1970 |
| 2020 |
2020: ViacomCBS cuts ties with Nick Cannon |
| 2005 |
In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields. |
| 2003 |
Ride or Die |
| 1999 |
Anthony Williams inaugurated ast D.C. Mayor |
| 1998 |
Chicago police charge two Black boys, 8 and 7, with the rape and murder of an 11-year-old Chicago girl |
| 1998 |
Three avowed white supremacists murder James Byrd |
| 1991 |
Imperial Foods chicken processing plant fire |
| 1991 |
Soon Ja Du fatally shoots 15-year-old Latasha Harlins |
| 1990 |
Marion Barry arrested in an FBI sting operation for crack cocaine use and possession. |
| 1990 |
Marion Barry, Man of the People (1936-2014) |
| 1989 |
1989: Public Enemy expels Professor Griff |
| 1985 |
Violence is Their Religion! |
| 1982 |
Ruth First assassinated by South African police |
| 1979 |
Marion Barry inaugurated as D.C. Mayor |
| 1976 |
“I’ll tell you what coloreds want. It’s three things: first, a tight pu!@y; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to sh*!. That’s all!” |
| 1973 |
Jon Burge False Confessions |
| 1971 |
A Virginia lawyer, Lewis J. Powell, writes a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, exhorting big business to purge leftists from university teaching positions. |
| 1970 |
A second attempt by the University of California’s Board of Regents to fire Angela Davis from her UCLA teaching job fails. |
| 1968 |
Black Student Union leads protests at San Francisco State University that produce the College of Ethnic Studies. |
| 1967 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| 1966 |
In a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi, Kwame Ture introduces the phrase “Black Power” |
| 1965 |
1965 SNCC’s first chair, Marion Barry, moves to Washington DC to open a SNCC chapter |
| 1965 |
Ku Klux Klan members fatally shoot Viola Liuzzo |
| 1964 |
1964: Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman are murdered |
| 1963 |
Martin Luther King, Jr./President Kennedy’s Assassination |
| 1962 |
Montgomery County Widens River Road and Constructs Little Falls Parkway Leading to the Erasure of the All-Black Community |
| 1960 |
A group of college students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at another historically Black college in North Carolina, Shaw University |
| 1960 |
Four freshmen at historically Black North Carolina A&T sit at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter and refuse to leave until they are served |
| 1954 |
U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown Vs. Topeka Board of Education Desegregrates Public Schools Ushering in an Era of Racial Integration |
| 1949 |
1949: Rabbi Julian Feibelman opened the doors of his Temple Sinai |
| 1948 |
A multiracial coalition wins the release of James Hickman |
| 1944 |
South Carolina authorities execute George Stinney Jr., for the murder of two white girls |
| 1931 |
Police falsely charge nine, Black teenagers with raping two White women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama |
| 1929 |
1929: Louis Isaac Jaffe wins the Pulitzer Prize for his denunciation of lynching |
| 1918 |
Mary Turner |
| 1915 |
Leo Frank Lynching |
| 1914 |
1914: Joel Spingarn is named chairman of the NAACP |
| 1913 |
1913: A white mob lynches Leo Frank |
| 1911 |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| 1911 |
Land in River Road Sold for Use As a Cemetery to African American Benevolent Society |
| 1898 |
North Carolina Democrats incite lynch mobs to murder hudreds of African Americans in Wilmington |
| 1896 |
U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessy Vs. Ferguson Decision Codifies Segregation, Confining Blacks to All-Black Communities |
| 1889 |
U.S. Census Records 24 Households and 102 People, All Black, Living in River Road Community |
| 1873 |
Land Records Show That Two, 2-Acre Plots of Land Were Sold to Formerly Enslaved Buyers, John Burley and Nelson Wood |
| 1869 |
Newly Freed African Americans Purchase Plots of Land in Maryland’s River Road Community Near Washington D.C. |
| 1863 |
President Abraham Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1859 |
John Brown hanged in Charles Town |
| 1850 |
Harvard’s Swiss-born biologist, Louis Agassiz, commissions intimate photographs of South Carolina slaves to prove Blacks’ inferiority |
| 1847 |
Harvard admits first Black student |
| 1840 |
Father of Gynecology |
| 1808 |
The U.S. Bans the Importation of African Slaves |
