day in history

January 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the publication of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe in 1834, the death of H.L. Mencken and the birth of Oprah Winfrey.

January 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Zora Neale Hurston, the birth of José Martí, and the foundation of the Free African Society in Philadelphia in 1787.

January 27, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the deaths of Mahalia Jackson and Pete Seeger, the liberation of Auschwitz, and the 1969 Eldon Avenue Axle Plant wildcat strike.

January 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of the first Black woman pilot Bessie Coleman, the birthday of political activist Angela Davis, and the day the Apollo Theater in Harlem reopened.

January 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history including the death of African American scholar Fanny Jackson Coppin, the election of Ahmed Sékou Touré, and the birthday of our Attorney General Eric Holder.

January 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, January 20th, including the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the founding of the National Negro Network, and the birthday of Lead Belly.

January 16, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Susan Sontag and Joe Flacco, and the death of gospel singer Clara Ward.

January 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the incendiary inaugural speech of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, the ousting of former Tunisian president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali, and the premieres' of two of Americas most beloved TV comedies, Sanford and Sun and The Simpsons.

January 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares events from this day in history including Henry Ford's patent for the soybean car and World War II veteran, Vernon Joseph Baker's receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor.

January 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry died, the day the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed 316,000 Haitians, and the day the Supreme Court made it illegal for states to discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.

January 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the German Coast Rebellion outside of New Orleans, the day African-American men were given the right to vote in Washington DC, and the day the first issue of The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News was published.

January 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Zora Neale Hurston, and the day Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1955.

January 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked about his Four Freedoms, the day the New England Anti-Slavery Society was organized, and the day former KKK leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested for the murders of three civil rights workers who were killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

January 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including National Bird Day, the day Henry Ford announced an eight-hour workday and a "living wage," and Founders Day for Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest African American fraternity.

December 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day including, President Warren G. Harding's "Christmas Amnesty" which granted clemency for 23 political prisoners, and the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.

December 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the conviction of French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus in a court martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism.

December 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of actor and activist Ossie Davis, the day environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down from the ancient Redwood tree she staged a two-year protest in, and the start of the Arab Spring Uprisings.

December 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including when Simón Bolívar declared the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela), the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, and Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the wider Arab Spring.

December 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the birthday of African American historian William Cooper Nell, and NAACP co-founder Fanny Garrison Villard.

December 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history including the murder of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull, the day we lost civil rights leader Septima Poinsette Clark, and the American Psychiatric Association voting unanimously to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.

December 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the arrest of Bernard Madoff, the birth of Grace Paley, and the death of Sam Cooke.

December 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the establishment of the YMCA, the founding of the John Birch Society, and the birth of Redd Foxx.

December 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Flip Wilson, the launch of the 1962 New York City newspaper strike, and the murder of John Lennon.

December 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1859 hanging of abolitionist John Brown for his raid on harpers Ferry, West Virginia, riots breaking out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, and the death of folk singer and activist Odetta.

November 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the Nuremberg trials in Germany, Native American activists seizing control of Alcatraz Island, and the execution Zumbi, the last of the leaders of fugitive African settlement, Quilombos dos Palmares.

November 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including President Kennedy sending 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam, the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder/suicide, andRonald Reagan signing a bill into law allowing for a Cabinet-level drug czar and the death penalty for drug traffickers.

November 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Kristallnacht, when anti-Jewish pogroms took place across Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the passing of UN Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism and racism.

November 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy, Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore,and the birth of author Michael Cunningham.

November 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when five members of the Communist Workers Party were shot by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally, John Willis Menard becoming the first African American elected to the US Congress, and the death of Annie Oakley.

October 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister of Italy, the 1929 New York Stock Exchange crash that launched the Great Depression, and Mohammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, winning his first professional fight.

October 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Philadelphia, the day Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protested the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records at the Custom House in Baltimore, and the opening of the first underground New York subway.

October 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Michael Eric Dyson and Gummo Marx, the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the launch of the 1790 revolt in Haiti.

October 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Jack Kerouac, the birth of Ursula K. Le Guin, and when William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was drug through the streets of Boston, MA, by a pro-slavery mob in 1835.

October 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of pianist and composer Thelonius Monk, the premier of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, and the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

October 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the discover of Matthew Shepard's body, a gay man who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, the birth of anarchist singer and activist Joe Hill, and Toni Morrison becoming the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

October 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Fannie Lou Hamer and Gerry Adams, the launch of the Yom Kippur War, and the 1976 massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.

October 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1964 launch of the Free Speech Movement on the campus of University of California, Berkeley, the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila," when Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines, and the birth of John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist, Pan-Africanist and newspaper editor.

September 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the British Mandate of Palestine, the 1991 military coup in Haiti, and the birth of Jerry Lee Lewis.

September 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of T.S. Eliot and George Gershwin, and Frances Drake's circumnavigation the globe.

September 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of John Coltrane and Ray Charles, the 1943 declaration of the Italian Socialist Republic, and the 1890 election of John Mercer Langston to the US Congress. He was the first black person elected to represent the state of Virginia in Congress and the only one for at least another 100 years.

September 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the beginning of Occupy Wall Street, the death of Dred Scott, and the start of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery.

September 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the murder of singer Victor Jara, the birth of poet Claude McKay, and Lehman Brothers filing for Chapter 11, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

September 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Otis Redding, Sonia Sanchez, and Billy Preston, the deaths of Mao Zedong and Bill Monroe, and the launch of the four-day Attica Prison rebellion.

September 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Fredrick Douglass' escape from slavery, the death of e.e. cummings, and the start of the Allied invasion of Italy.

August 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Slavery Abolition Act, which banned slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, the kidnapping of Emmett Till, and Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech.

August 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the independence of Uruguay, the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, and the imprisonment of Toussaint L’ouverture.

August 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including a 1791 slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which marked the beginning a 12 year revolution that led to the formation of Haiti, the killing of Irish activist and politician Michael Collins, and the murder of Huey P. Newton.