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Mabel Fairbanks mid-leap in a feathered show costume during an ice revue performance
Black History 365

Mabel Fairbanks: The Figure Skating Legend Told “We Don’t Have Negroes in Ice Shows”

Twenty-five years ago today, figure skating lost Mabel Fairbanks — the Black woman told "we don't have Negroes in ice…

Exterior of the former WGPR-TV studios at 3146 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, now home to the William V. Banks Broadcast Museum & Media Center.
Black History 365

WGPR-TV Turns 51: The Detroit Station That Proved Black People Could Run a TV Network

Fifty-one years ago today, WGPR-TV Channel 62 signed on in Detroit — the first Black-owned and Black-operated television station in…

Engraved frontispiece from David Walker's Appeal, showing an enslaved man on a mountaintop reaching toward the words 'libertas justitia.'
Black History 365

David Walker’s Appeal at 197: The Pamphlet So Dangerous the South Criminalized It

One hundred ninety-seven years ago today, a free Black clothing dealer in Boston published a pamphlet so dangerous that the…

gaming

Silent Hill: Townfall Night 1 — I Was Scared Before Simon Even Moved

My blind Silent Hill: Townfall night 1: thick fog, a 999 call that said 'save yourself,' the Haldane Hotel's crying…

Baddies USA: Chapter Three — the cast is official. Original title card by The Whitsdom Press.
Gossip

Zeus Goes Live Like Twitch — and Baddies USA Chapter 3 Is Already Messy

Zeus Network is entering the live-streaming game, Twitch-and-Kick style — and the Baddies USA: Chapter Three cast fell apart within…

Serena Williams celebrating at the Australian Open. Photo: Tourism Victoria, via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons).
Black History 365

Serena Williams at 45: The Girl From Compton’s Courts Changed Everything

Serena Williams turns 45 on September 26, 2026. From Compton's public courts to 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Photo: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Black History 365

The Black Museum Turns 10: NMAAHC’s ‘The Reunion’ Weekend in DC

The National Museum of African American History and Culture marked a decade on the National Mall with 'The Reunion' —…

James Talarico speaking at the Texas Capitol, Jan. 13, 2025. Photo: Antonio Esparza, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
News

The Texas Senate Race Gets Messy: Talarico Hits Paxton Over a China Trip

James Talarico's Sept. 22 digital ad accuses Ken Paxton of taking an all-expenses-paid China trip and $40,000 from China-linked developers…

U.S. Army paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division escorting members of the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957.
Black History 365

September 23, 1957: The Day the Mob Turned the Little Rock Nine Away

Sixty-nine years ago today, a mob of a thousand surrounded Central High in Little Rock — and the nine Black…

Portrait of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier.
Black History 365

E. Franklin Frazier at 132: The Scholar Who Remapped Black Family Life

Born 132 years ago today in segregated Baltimore, E. Franklin Frazier became the first Black president of the American Sociological…