Here’s some key events that happened on this day brought to you by Black Facts   1990 – Nelson Mandela is released Nelson Mandela’s greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing. Locked up in his cell during daylight hours, deprived of music, both […]

The President is taking an aggressive stance against carbon emissions from American power plants.

The Mandela family name is one that carries a heavy weight of responsibility because of the legendary Nelson Mandela. And after his death in 2013,…

In 2001, at the age of 19, Serena Williams took the court at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California under a rain of…

The 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards was definitely a night to remember.  The best and the brightest in Black Hollywood converged at the Pasadena Civic…

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Rev. Jesse Jackson has lived an extraordinary life. Through his civil service, he’s met some of the world’s biggest leaders including Martin Luther King and…

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While Nelson Mandela left more than $4 million to family members, former staff, schools and the African National Congress, he excluded his former wife of…

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RELATED:  HBCU Alums Tell How MLK & Nelson Mandela Inspired Them [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] For the next part of our “Martin & Mandela” Black History Month tribute…

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Mass Mutual and NewsOne joins together to present 28 dynamic people that make up the diverse tapestry of Black History. For the entire month of…

As we reflect on today’s King holiday and the upcoming Black History Month, it’s important not only to remember what our civil rights heroes did…

We are celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. today, so Bernice Jenkins wanted to find out what they were doing up in heaven. Listen…