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On August 28, 1945, Jackie Robinson sat across from Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey in a office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn. Robinson, a...
On July 20, 1969, alarms started blaring inside Mission Control. The Apollo 11 lunar module's guidance computer was overloading, flashing 1202 program alarms that no...
On the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
On the morning of March 12, 1930, a sixty-year-old man in a simple white dhoti stepped out of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, carrying...
Faith is much like a story unfolding page by page, inviting us into an epic of courage and transformation. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Imagine a...
The Battle of Okinawa was among the bloodiest engagements of World War II. When the soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division finally retreated from Hacksaw...
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through a gauntlet of screaming protesters to enter William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Four...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University — Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond — walked...
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood at the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and refused to step forward. When the...
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through the doors of William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, flanked by four federal marshals. She...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton lay on her surfboard at Tunnels Beach on Kauai's North Shore, her left arm dangling...
On May 2, 1963, hundreds of Black children filed out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing hymns and walking straight toward waiting...
In 1939, Marian Anderson was one of the most celebrated contraltos in the world. She had performed across Europe to standing ovations. But when she...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after a long day at the Montgomery Fair department store. She sat...
On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and did the most costly thing a...
On the evening of October 16, 1968, the Mexico City Olympic stadium fell into a stunned hush. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who...
In the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal with everything he had trained for within reach....
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound for the New York Yankees against the Cleveland Indians. Abbott was born without a right hand....