Wilt Chamberlain scores a record-setting 100 points in an NBA game.

Calypso singer Harry Belafonte is born in Harlem, New York.

Rebecca Lee becomes the first black woman to earn a medical degree.

By TaRessa Stovall
Dean Grose, Mayor of Los Alamitos, California, has been using e-mail to get into and out of hot water. Grose has been widely criticized for sending an e-mail showing watermelons planted on the White House lawn, with the caption, “No Easter egg hunt this year.”

By Stacey Patton
In recent days, a photograph of a Barnes and Noble book display honoring the inauguration of President Barack Obama has gone viral over the Internet because it prominently includes a book about monkeys with the other titles.  But hold on to your wigs and britches folks.  Before the NAACP, Rev. Al Sharpton and other concerned citizens pick up signs and start making demands to fire managers and employees or telling consumers to stop buying books from Barnes and Noble, there is another side to the story.

By Lee A. Daniels
The racial controversies that exploded on two fronts last week – the one involving a racist cartoon in the New York Post; the other involved a speech given by the nation’s new Attorney General  — continued to throw off sparks this week.

By The Editors
Following Orders.

That’s what Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the Dillon, South Carolina eighth-grader who was one of the special guests of President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama during his February 24 address to Congress, was doing. Following orders.

By Lee A. Daniels
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when white women, regardless of their wealth or social position, could not vote, and were widely discouraged from pursuing any meaningful work outside the home, Belle da Costa Greene achieved extraordinary success: as a chief advisor to J.P. Morgan, one of America’s greatest titans.

By The Editors
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now TV/radio news writes of two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities who profited from the imprisonment of some 2,000 children

By TaRessa Stovall
A courageous eight-year-old black girl. A warrior for justice in racially segregated 1950s America, when “separate but equal” was the law and bigotry the order of the day. Playwright Cheryl L. Davis brings the true-life drama of the landmark case Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas to the stage for student and family audiences across the nation.