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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 July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium not for fireworks but for a farewell. Lou Gehrig stood at home plate, gaunt and...
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...
As we reflect on Galatians 5:22-23, we see the beautiful fruit of the Spirit manifesting in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Each of these virtues requires a measure of courage to cultivate, especially...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a...
In July 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, warning alarms began firing in the cockpit. Program alarm 1202....
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...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen rescue missions from St. Catharines, Ontario, back into the slave-holding territory of Maryland's Eastern Shore. She had...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
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 May 27, 1958, Ernest Green walked across the stage at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and became the first Black student to...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal. He had trained for years, endured multiple surgeries, and finally...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal as one of the favorites. He had trained his entire...
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 the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, arms full of...
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 August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
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 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...
Imagine a small boat bobbing on the vast sea, the sun glistening on the waves, a gentle breeze guiding its course. In that boat sits a lone sailor, gripping the tiller with white knuckles, a mixture of excitement and fear...
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 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 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...
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...