day in history

March 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - We start the show with a look at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including two hundred African Americans leaving Savannah, Georgia, for Liberia in 1895, the 1982 car crash that severely injured soul singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord, and the birth of Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress.

March 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, DC, the day a referendum to end apartheid in South Africa was passed, and the day Saint Patrick, Irish missionary and bishop, died.

March 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc reflects on some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the deaths of Fannie Lou Hamer and Karl Marx, and the birth of Quincy Jones.

March 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Pope Francis was elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, the day the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, and the day Susan B. Anthony died.

March 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant were commissioned to lay out the District of Columbia, the day Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam, and the day African-American children's author Virginia Hamilton was born.

March 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day "Raisin In The Sun" opened at Barrymore Theater, the birthday of accordion player Lawrence Welk, and the birthday of singer Patty Waters.

March 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the first successful telephone call was made, the day Harriet Tubman died, and the day Daisy Lampkin, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, died.

March 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birth of Thomas Aquinas, Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers in Alabama were brutally attacked by police and deputized citizens, the death of Baltimore-born drag queen and actor Divine, and the death of labor organizer Lucy Parsons.

March 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Missouri Compromise was signed into law, the day the Dred Scott decision was made, and the day Georgia O' Keeffe died.

March 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Boston Massacre, when five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.

March 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived back in Portugal with slaves, the day the Massachusetts Bay Colony was granted a Royal charter, and the day Fannie Barrier Williams passed away.

February 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including a slave revolt in Long Island, NY, the day Richard Wright's Native Son was published, and the day Frankie Lymon was found dead.

February 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of singer Frankie Lymon, the Supreme Court ruling that the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was constitutional, and the 1933 Reichstag fire, when Nazis burned Germany's parliament building in Berlin, a crucial moment in their rise to power.

February 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote was sent to the states for ratification, the birthday of singer Erykah Badu, and the second anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin.

February 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - We start the show with this day in history, February the 25th. Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Muhammad Ali defeating Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight boxing championship, Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi being sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress, and the birth of George Harrison, the lead guitar player for the Beatles.

February 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the Supreme Court's Marbury v. Madison decision, the day the United States acquired Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, and the day Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree.

February 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the publishing of The Communist Manifesto, the birthday of Nina Simone, and the day Malcolm X was assassinated.

February 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc looks back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the establishment of the US Postal Service, Jimi Hendrix's stage debut, the death of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and the birth of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

February 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the meeting of W.E.B. DuBois' Pan-African Congress, the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and the birthdays of Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers from The Miracles.

February 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the first formal protest against slavery by an organized white body, the birthday of poet and activist Audre Lorde, and the day leader of the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther died.

February 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of Roman bishop and martyr Saint Valentine, the day that Oregon and Arizona became states, and the day Mamie Smith became the first Black woman to make a record.

February 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day poet Lucille Clifton died, the day the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was organized, and the day the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers the day after Charles M. Schulz died.

February 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including National Freedom to Marry Day, Congress' first passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln.

February 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the arrest of labor agitator Mother Jones for leading a protest of conditions in West Virginia mines at the age of 83, the death of singer Whitney Houston, and the release of Nelson Mandela from prison after 27 years of incarceration.

February 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Jefferson Davis was selected as provisional President of the Confederate States of the America, the day the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the U.S. House of Representatives, and the birthday of Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton.

February 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of the things that happened on this day in history, including Grenada's Independence Day, the first celebration of Negro History Week, and the birthday of Baltimore music legend Eubie Blake.

February 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the first minstrel show in the United States, the day the Great Baltimore Fire started, and the birthday of Bob Marley.

February 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Trayvon Martin, King Leopold II of Belgium establishing the Congo as a "personal possession," the 2000 Russian massacre of at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya, and the death of Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist.

February 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of the events that took place on this day in history, including the day France abolished slavery, the day Facebook was created, and the birthday of Rosa Parks.

February 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the authorization of the US federal government to impose and collect an income tax, the banning of child labor and implementation of the forty-hour work week, and the births of Pretty Boy Floyd and Gertrude Stein.

January 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, the day James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" was published, and the day Slim Harpo died.

January 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the bombing of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott, the formation of the Harlem Globetrotters, and Bloody Sunday, the day British Paratroopers opened fire on and killed fourteen unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry, Ireland.

January 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day in 1889 six thousand railway workers went on strike for a union and the end of the 18-hour day, the birthday of Oprah Winfrey, and the day blues legend Willie Dixon died.

January 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Zora Neale Hurston died, the date the Free Africa Society was organized in Philadelphia, and the day the first African-American state legislator was elected, Crystal Bird Fauset.

January 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the launch of the 2011 Yemeni revolution, and the death of historian Howard Zinn.

January 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including a slave uprising in Brazil, the shooting Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, by the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, and the shooting of Ozie Powell, a Scottsboro boy, the day after he is sentences to 75 years.

January 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Bounty Day, the day Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor, and the birthday of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

January 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the creation of the Central Intelligence Group, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, David Bowie coming out as bisexual, and the births of Nat Turner, Antonio Gramsci, and Sam Cooke.

January 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Fanny Jackson Coppin, one of the first black women to graduate from college, passed away, Altagracia Day in the Dominican Republic, and the birthday of musician Richie Havens.

January 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc explores some of the events that happened today in history, including the birth of Leadbelly, the foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union, the 1954 establishment of the National Negro Network, and the death of Etta James.

January 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, President Eisenhower's last speech as president of the United States in which he warned against what he called the “military-industrial complex” and strongly urged people to seek peace, and the murders of Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins in 1969.

January 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day the first grammar of the Spanish language was presented to Queen Isabella I, the day Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom, and the day Bea Booze's "See See Rider" went #1 on what would become the R&B Chart.

January 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the Sidereal Winter Solstice in South and Southeast Asian cultures, Ratification Day in the United States, and the birthday of musician and composer Allen Toussaint.

January 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc looks back at some of the events that happened today in history, including the publishing of Tomas Paine's Common Sense, the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the birth of jazz drummer Max Roach.