Black History Month (February)

Listen to audio files, watch videos and read a biography of the courageous Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is well known for her work in quietly battling segregation in the United States.

Take a closer look at the life of escaped slave and American icon Harriet Tubman, who liberated over 700 enslaved people using the Underground Railroad.

Defying the odds, Elizabeth Key won her freedom in a court in Virginia in 1665.

Today we'll focus on how one woman flouted the social conventions of her time and place and became a notable public speaker, thinker, and writer.

Today we’re learning about Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall rebellion -- a pivotal moment in the modern Gay Rights Movement

Learn about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a large slice of the population and helped changed the ways that white Colonists thought about Black people.

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm ran for president of the United States of America as a Democrat. She didn't win, but this was not the beginning or the end of her career in politics.

In the 19th & 20th Centuries, black women formed clubs and organized to make sure civil and political rights were extended to ALL Black people, not just Black men.

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr started the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest discrimination on city buses. Learn how they changes the rules of the South.

We discuss the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women particularly vulnerable to some terrible abuses under the institution.

Women have been a powerful (and largely underappreciated) force in the movement for Black equality in the United States. The Black Power Movement is no exception to that trend.

Today we'll talk about one of the most interesting minds of the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston.

Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery in late 18th century New York. Fleeing bondage, she renamed herself Sojourner Truth and became known as an electrifying orator and her speeches argued for abolition and women's rights.

In the late 1800’s, lynchings were happening all over the American South, often without any investigation or consequences for the murderers. A young journalist set out to expose the truth about these killings.

A brief biography of Josephine Baker, a Black singer born in the United States, who served as a spy in France during World War II.

A brief biography of writer and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou

Get to know the life and works of poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who became one of colonial America’s most famous writers.

Butler was a successful science fiction writer in a time when white male authors dominated the field. She brought new perspectives into the stories of science fiction and influenced the field to change from the dominance of white male characters.

Learn more about Ida B. Wells, an anti-lynching crusader who used the power of journalism and statistical evidence to raise awareness about the most extreme horrors of life in the Southern United States for African Americans.