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Serena Williams celebrating at the Australian Open. Photo: Tourism Victoria, via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons).
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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.
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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' —…

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.
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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.
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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…

Francis Bicknell Carpenter's 1864 painting 'First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln' showing Lincoln presenting the proclamation to his cabinet.
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September 22, 1862: The Freedom Papers That Didn’t Free Anybody

On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation — a 100-day warning that didn't free a single…

Mosaic depicting Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter, Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
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The Archbishop Who Threatened to Excommunicate Segregationists

On September 21, 1947, an archbishop told 700 white parents: fight school integration and face excommunication. Seven years before Brown…

Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, at Ft. Keogh, Montana, 1890 (Library of Congress)
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The Buffalo Soldiers: 160 Years Since Black Cavalry Rode for Texas

On September 21, 1866, the U.S. Army organized the Black regiments that became the Buffalo Soldiers — and Texas was…

Augustine Herrman's 1670 map of Virginia and Maryland
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1664: The Law That Made Loving Across Color Lines a Crime

In 1664, Maryland invented the legal crime of loving across the color line — the first anti-amalgamation law in America.…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1964
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68 Years Ago Today, MLK Was Stabbed at a Harlem Book Signing

Sixty-eight years ago today, a 29-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. was nearly killed at a Harlem book signing — a…

Georgia Historical Society marker for the Camilla Massacre of September 19, 1868
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The Camilla Massacre: Sept. 19, 1868

158 years ago today, Georgia expelled 28 Black legislators — then ambushed their supporters in Camilla. 9–15 killed, no one…