*The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is celebrated on this date in 1973. CDF is an American nonprofit organization that focuses on child advocacy and research. Based in Washington, D.C., and created by Marian Wright Edelman. The CDF exists to improve federal policies concerning child welfare and public education systems. CDF has offices in several states: California, […]
learn more*Tarana Burke was born on this date in 1973. She is a Black racial justice and woman’s rights advocate. Burke has worked in social justice, black arts, and culture in New York City for over 30 years. Her long and varied professional career started in Selma, AL, where, for over a decade, she worked with […]
learn more*Stacey Abrams was born on this date in 1973. She is a Black politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author. Stacey Yvonne Abrams is the second of six siblings; she was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi. The family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents pursued graduate degrees at Emory University and later became Methodist ministers. Her siblings include Andrea Abrams, […]
learn more*The Combahee River Collective (CRC) is celebrated on this date in 1974. The CRC was a Black feminist lesbian organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980. Their name commemorated an episode at the Combahee River organized and led by Harriet Tubman on June 2, 1863, in the Port Royal region of South Carolina. The […]
learn more*Rosemary Sadlier was born on this date in 1977. She is a Black Canadian social justice activist, researcher, author, and consultant. Born and raised in Toronto, she has teaching and social work degrees. Her roots in Canada reach back to pre-Confederation: her mother’s family can be traced to 1840, while her father’s ancestors arrived in […]
learn more*On this date in 1977, TransAfrica was formed. This advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., seeks to influence the United States’ foreign policy concerning African and Caribbean countries and all African diaspora groups. TransAfrica Forum was founded on July 1, 1977, after being conceived a year earlier at a Black Leadership Conference convened by the Congressional Black Caucus in September 1976. A committee consisting of Randall Robinson, Herschelle Challenor, and […]
learn more*On this date in 1980, the National Association of Black & White Men Together (NABWMT) was formed. The NABWMT is a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization committed to fostering supportive environments wherein racial and cultural barriers can be overcome, and the goal of human equality realized. To these ends, we engage in educational, political, cultural, and social […]
learn more*On this date in 1980, The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) was formed. PISAB is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. Their beginning came from a meeting at the Rev Dr. C.T. Vivian’s home in Atlanta, GA. Then, Ann Braden and others officially met […]
learn more*Ijeoma Oluo was born on this date in 1980. She is a Black writer, Information Literacy Ambassador, and poet. From Denton, Texas, her father, Samuel Lucky Onwuzip Oluo, is from Nigeria and Black, and her mother, Susan Jane Hawley, from Kansas, is white. Her younger brother is jazz musician Ahamefule J. Oluo. She married Chad […]
learn more*The birth of Christiana Carteaux Bannister is celebrated on this date in 1819. She was a Black business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist in New England. Christiana Carteaux was born Christiana Babcock in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. She was born to African and Narragansett Native American parents. She was a descendant of enslaved Blacks who worked the plantations […]
learn more*On this date in 1981, we affirm the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the organization carries out initiatives on both the domestic and international levels. This is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded by Coretta Scott King. She started the organization in the basement of the couple’s home in the year following her husband’s […]
learn more*On this date in 1984, Black Women Stirring the Waters, a black women’s discussion group founded in the San Francisco Bay Area, was founded. Clara Stanton Jones and Aileen Clarke Hernandez conceived the group. It has no formal structure, taboo subjects, or membership requirements other than an interest in the dialog. Black Women Stirring the […]
learn more*Monica Carrillo was born on this date in 1984. She is an Afro Peruvian poet and activist. She is from the community of Chincha, Peru. She holds a degree in journalism from the National University of San Marcos in Peru and received her degree in political journalism and cultural analysis from the University of Antonio […]
learn more*Colin Kaepernick was born on this date in 1987. He is a Black civil rights activist and American football (NFL) quarterback, a retired free agent, and unemployed. Colin Rand Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, who is white. His father, African American, separated from Russo before Kaepernick was born. Russo placed him up for adoption with a white couple named […]
learn more*The founding in 1988 of the organization Amer-I-Can is celebrated on this date. Amer-I-can is composed of a non-profit organization, The Amer-I-can Foundation For Social Change and a for-profit organization The Amer-I-can Program, Inc.
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