This Day In Quiztory

Thirty one years ago today, "The Arsenio Hall Show" premiered on late night television. Arsenio Hall became the first African American late night talk show host.

Today we celebrate hall of fame boxing champion Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker

Happy New Year! Today we commemorate President Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation which declared all slaves being held in the rebellious states as free.

Steven Russell Harts from the R&B group TROOP gives us the history behind The Delany sister's Broadway production Having Our Say, based on the experiences of Bessie and Sadie Delany's first 100 years of life.

Chief Justice Tom Colbert, the first African American to serve on the state of Oklahoma Supreme Court, was born in Oklahoma City.

Ruth Carol Taylor, the first African American flight attendant in the United States, was born in Boston Massachusetts

Lonnie Elder, the first African American to receive an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay, was born in Georgia.

Congressional Space Medal of Honor recipient, NASA astronaut Michael Philip Anderson was born.

William Washington Brown founded the Order of True Reformers, an organization created to promote prosperity, self-sufficiency and African American businesses

Georgetown University's Healy Hall, named after Patrick Francis Healy, the first person of African descent to become president of a predominately white college, was declared a National Historic Landmark.

The musical, Dreamgirls made it's Broadway debut at the Imperial Theatre starring Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, and Jennifer Holliday

Join us in wishing Hall of Fame Track and Field star and Olympic Gold medalist Charles Austin the happiest of birthdays! Find out more about his life and career on today's podcast.

Filmmaker, cinematographer, and New York University Film School graduate Ernest Dickerson, won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing”

We celebrate the life and legacy of actor and Army veteran Moses Gunn, who passed away in 1993.

The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, now known as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in Jackson, TN by 41 former slaves.

We celebrate the life and legacy of Hall of Fame boxer Archibald Wright, aka Archie Moore, aka The Mongoose.

Dedicated to providing quality services to, and advocating on behalf of black journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) was founded in Washington D.C.

The production "Black Nativity" written by author and poet Langston Hughes opens Off Broadway.

On the 14th anniversary of his passing, we celebrate stand up comedian, actor, writer, storyteller, and Grammy Award winner Richard Pryor.

Today, we celebrate the election of Kweisi Mfume to president of the NAACP. Join us in celebrating his legacy up to and through his 5 terms as a US Congressman.