W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. “He was an activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the
Major John Griffith envisioned a nation made better, healthier and stronger — more powerful and patriotic — and forged by youthful competition that preached good citizenship. To this day, his legacy thrives on baseball fields across America and in the highest levels
Dr. Nettie Stevens broke down barriers for women and opened up doors of knowledge for all humankind. She decoded the science between the two genders. A pioneering cytogeneticist and researcher at Bryn Mawr College, outside Philadelphia, Stevens discovered in 1905 that sex
Schuyler Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA athlete who swam on the men’s team at Harvard University during the 2018-19 season, dismissed the argument that transgender female athletes have an advantage over biological females when it comes to sports. Bailar hosted former
Barbara Johns was a junior at Robert Russa Moton High School in 1951 in Farmville, Virginia. She liked learning, but she didn’t like the school’s overcrowded classrooms, dangerous wood-burning stoves and leaky ceilings. It wasn’t fair. Nearby Farmville High School was spacious