By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second in Wilson’s ten-series cycle chronicling African-American history, is one of my all-time, favorite plays. I still remember vividly how the drama both moved and educated me.

By Desiree Cooper
Maybe now, more than ever, it’s time for Detroiters to educate themselves as well as the nation about who we are and what we have contributed to this great country.

President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 establishing the Fair Employment Practice Commission, which outlawed racial and religious discrimination in war industries, government training programs and government industries.

Mary McLeod Bethune became the first black woman to head a U.S. government agency when she was named director of the Division of Minority Affairs for the National Youth Administration by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wilma Rudolph, former polio victim who became the world famous track star, winning three gold medals in the Olympic Games, born

W.E.B. DuBois becomes first Black member of National Institute of Letters

American Methodist Episcopal Zion Church organized in meeting in New York City

Henry O Tanner, artist, born

Mordecai Johnson became first black president of Howard University

Muhammad Ali convicted in Houston, TX in federal court for violating Selective Service Act by refusing induction into armed service on grounds that he was a Muslim minister in opposition to the VietNam War.