By Pamela Newkirk
In this biography of Wells-Barnett, Giddings gives us the most definitive account yet of the journalist who, under the pen name “Iola” transformed the grotesque instances of lynching of blacks from an unpunished American past-time to the international disgrace and barbaric crime that it was.

By Stacey Patton
Here we showcase just a few women pioneers who have been instrumental to helping LDF fulfill its mission to defend, educate and empower African Americans and others seeking justice and equality in America.

Blues singer and guitarist McKinley Morganfield “Muddy Waters” is born.

Politician, pastor and activist Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. dies in Miami, Florida.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

Poet and writer Maya Angelou is born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Mountaintop” speech.

Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York.

Richard Mayhew, highly respected and revolutionary landscape artist, is born in Amityville, New York.

Poet-orator James Madison Bell, author of the Emancipation Day poem The Day and the War, is born in Gallipolis, Ohio.