Today in Black History

*On this date in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; ordering that all slaves in...

John William “Blind” Boone was born on this date in 1864. He was an African-American musician.

Born at a...

On this date in 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run with a black man as the jockey.

He rode three-year-...

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