Black History On This Day January 14th

John Oliver Killens, writer born (1916 - 1987) Pulitzer Prize nominatinated novelist, John Oliver...

Hattie McDaniel becomes First Black Academy Award Winner (1939) Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American...

Carl Weathers, Actor (1948) Actor Carl Weathers best known for his role as...

First African American Fortune 500 CEO born (1949) Franklin Delano Raines the former CEO of Fannie...

Thurgood Marshall becomes the First African-American appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States (1972) President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as...