This Day In Quiztory

Today we celebrate Secretary Ben Carson on his 69th birthday.

Today we celebrate singer and actor Vanessa L Williams, who is also the first black woman to be crowned Miss America

Today we share some background on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series "In Living Color"

Today we remember the four little girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL

Today we celebrate opera soprano Leontyne Price

Bandleader Duke Ellington received the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest honor

#OTD - "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" premiered on NBC

Today we celebrate tennis champion Arthur Ashe, the first African American to win the U.S. Open Men's Singles Title

Today we celebrate activist Ruby Bridges who desegregated her Louisiana elementary school in 1960

Today we celebrate painter Jacob Lawrence on what would be his 103rd birthday.

Today we celebrate actor and comedian Damon Wayans on his 60th birthday!

Today we celebrate longtime television executive Johnathan Rodgers who, at one time, was the highest ranking African American in network television

Today we shine a spotlight on Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, Florida's first black Supreme Court Justice.

Today we celebrate pioneering dentist Robert Tanner Freeman, the first African American dental college graduate in the U.S.

Today we remember pioneering banker William Hudgins, the first president of Freedom National Bank, who died on this day in 2007 at the age of 100

Today we look back on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech delivered 57 years ago during the March on Washington

Today we share some history on the life and legacy of scholar and co-founder of the NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois

Happy birthday, Valerie Simpson! Today we celebrate one half of the singing and songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson on her 74th birthday.

Today we shine a spotlight on the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN), founded in an effort to break the color barrier in nursing

Today we celebrate John DeGrasse, a physician for the Union Army during the civil war and the first black admitted to a United States medical society.