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On August 28, 1945, in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson and made an extraordinary...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City wearing only black socks — no shoes....
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh climbed into the Trieste bathyscaphe and descended nearly seven miles into the Mariana Trench — the deepest known...
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
In 2012, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden confirmed something remarkable about the human heart. Using carbon-14 dating — the same method used to...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. No...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He was running the race of his...
In 1779, a former slave trader sat down to write a hymn for his small parish in Olney, England. John Newton had spent years hauling...
On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, alongside six hundred marchers demanding their right to vote....
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted onto the diamond at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball in...
In December 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Nazi prison cell. The German pastor had been arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler,...
On January 23, 1960, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh climbed into the bathyscaphe Trieste and began their descent into the Mariana Trench...
In the deepest waters of the ocean, below a thousand meters, sunlight cannot reach. The pressure is immense. The cold is unrelenting. By every reasonable...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and sang to 75,000 people. What most forget is what...
On August 25, 1991, a twenty-one-year-old Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds posted a brief message to an online message board. "I'm doing a...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
On October 1, 1962, James Meredith walked into the registrar's office at the University of Mississippi and enrolled as its first Black student. The night...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to...
Imagine a young mother standing at the entrance of a new school year, clutching her child’s hand as they face the looming brick façade. Each time the bell rings, it feels like a challenge, a call into the unknown. Thoughts...
On the morning of November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges climbed out of a federal car and walked toward the front doors of William Frantz...
On a sweltering July night in 1893, a young man named James Cornish staggered into Provident Hospital in Chicago with a knife wound to the...
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched...