Lists, stories, and features celebrating Black History Month.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Lists, stories, and features celebrating Black History Month.









A Freedom Rider getting kicked out of a bus depot, 1961.

Hundreds of civil rights activists calling themselves Freedom Riders bravely held the nation accountable to its rules against segregation in 1961. Here are the facts you need to know.

Mark Mancini
The birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas influenced the timing of Black History Month.

We celebrate Black History Month every February to recognize the amazing impact African American people have had on our culture. Read on for more about this tradition's origins.

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Venus Williams at the 2023 ASB Women's Classic.

Venus Williams took the sports world by storm when she first arrived on the international stage as a teenage tennis phenom. She hasn't slowed down since.

Rashad Grove


The media mogul born ‘Orpah’ Winfrey has made quite a name for herself over the years.

Since making her national TV debut with ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ Oprah has become a global icon. Discover more fascinating facts about her life here.

Rudie Obias


Duke Ellington with members of his orchestra in New York, 1946.

Time to press play on “Take the ‘A’ Train” and find out how Edward Ellington became the Duke.

Ellen Gutoskey


Zora Neale Hurston in a portrait by Carl Van Vechten.

Writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s literary legacy is a class apart. Here are some facts you might not have known about the author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

Sohel Sarkar


LeBron James.

LeBron James has been a basketball superstar for most of this century, but it was two football coaches who changed his life.

Sam Dunn


Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Frances E.W. Harper.

Some Black suffragists may not be as well known as their white counterparts in the movement, but they made an indelible impact on history.

Michelle Harris
Frederick Douglass.

The list of Frederick Douglass's accomplishments is astonishing—respected orator, famous writer, abolitionist, civil rights leader, presidential consultant—even without considering that he was formerly enslaved.

JD Rinne