Coretta Scott King is born in Marion, Alabama.

Maggie L. Walker becomes the first black woman to head a bank when she is named president of Richmond’s St. Luke Penny Bank and Trust Company.

Writer Jessie Faucet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Composer and pianist Count Basie dies in Hollywood, Florida.

Blues artist Johnny Shines is born in Frayser, Tennessee.

Sarah Boone patents an improvement to the ironing board.

Blues singer Ma Rainey is born in Columbus, Georgia.

By The Editors
This week the city of New York designated the five -block stretch of Edgecombe Avenue that includes the building – from 150^th to 155^th streets – as Thurgood Marshall Boulevard.

By The Editors
Issues of race and civil rights were prominent in this year’s awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes this week.

By Rev. Susan Newman
On Easter Monday, April 13, when many children were enjoying a holiday from school and still eating chocolate bunnies, 11 year old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, Massachusetts, was being eulogized.