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Three Sisters Who Changed Wrestling Forever: The Forgotten Story of the...
The facts, then. In the 1950s, three sisters from Decatur, Georgia, stepped into a wrestling ring and changed the sport forever. Their names were...
The Man Who Wrote “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Died with $40...
The facts, then. In 1939, a Zulu migrant worker named Solomon Linda walked into the Gallo Recording Studios in Johannesburg after his shift as...
The Father of the Video Game Cartridge: Jerry Lawson’s Forgotten Legacy
The facts, then. In 1976, a Black engineer from Brooklyn named Gerald "Jerry" Lawson led the team that released the Fairchild Channel F, the...
Cyrille Regis – The Striker Who Got a Bullet in the...
The facts, then. In 1977, a 19-year-old striker from French Guiana signed for West Bromwich Albion. His name was Cyrille Regis. Within two years,...
Arthur Ashe: The Quiet Champion Who Took on Wimbledon, Apartheid, and...
On July 5, 1975, a 31-year-old Black man from Richmond, Virginia, walked onto Centre Court at Wimbledon. He was about to play Jimmy Connors,...
Althea Gibson – The Queen of Wimbledon Who Almost Became a...
In 1957, a 29-year-old woman from Harlem stood on Centre Court at Wimbledon and lifted the trophy. She was the first Black champion in...
The Prime Minister They Dissolved in Acid: Patrice Lumumba’s 65-Year Fight...
The facts, then. On January 17, 1961, a 35-year-old man was led from a jeep at an airport in Elisabethville, Katanga. He had been...
Fannie Lou Hamer – The Woman They Beat in Jail and...
The facts, then. On August 22, 1964, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi sat before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic...
The Slave Ship Named Jesus: How a German Carrack Launched England’s...
A ship called Jesus of Lübeck launched from a German port around 1520. It was a carrack, a large sailing vessel weighing about 700...
David Isom Desegregated Swimming Pools 1958
On June 8, 1958, a 19-year-old Black man named David Isom walked up to the ticket window at the Spa Pool in St. Petersburg,...
