(AURN News) — On May 1, 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Annie Allen,” becoming the first Black American to
(AURN News) — On April 30, 1863, Sarah J. Garnet was named the first Black principal in the New York City public school system. She
(AURN News) — On April 29, 1992, the Los Angeles riots began after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. The
(AURN News) — On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title after refusing induction into the U.S. Army during the
(AURN News) — On April 27, 1968, Dr. Vincent Porter achieved board certification in plastic surgery, becoming the first Black physician to do so, according
(AURN News) — On April 24, 1877, the end of Reconstruction was sealed when President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the withdrawal of federal troops from
(AURN News) — Rep. David Scott, a longtime Georgia congressman, has died at age 80 after more than two decades representing the state’s 13th District,
(AURN News) — On April 22, 1922, jazz bassist, composer and activist Charles Mingus was born on an Army base in Arizona. A towering figure
(AURN News) — According to the BBC, South African actress and former beauty queen Cynthia Shange has died at the age of 76. She passed
With hits like “Wait For Love,” “Here and Now,” “Power of Love/Love Power” and “Don’t Want to Be a Fool,” Vandross became an eight-time Grammy winner.
(AURN News) — On April 17, 1863, nearly a century before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, Charlotte L. Brown defied segregation on a
(AURN News) — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in their Annandale, Virginia, home in what police
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