BY WALTER OPINDE The history of surgical and dental procedures has been here with us for centuries since the Neolithic and Pre-Classical ages. What we see today are just the subsequent improvements since the first surgeries were conducted as early as 3000 BC during the Middle and Renaissance ...

By Tarisai Ngangura  Editor: Danielle A. Jackson Photo credits: Wea/Rhino/Getty Images The voice of Margie Hendrix (pictured right) on “Night Time is The Right Time” comes at you out of nowhere, like an explosive, thunderous crack in the sky after a period of steady rain. Long ...

Joseph "Doc" Brown took pride in being recognized as the champion cakewalker. He also called himself the originator of the dance in the United States. When it came to dancing, Brown considered himself just naturally gifted. Brown, also known as William Henry Joseph Cutter Brown was born in ...

Born on this day, Reginald Martinez Jackson, one of the greatest right fielders to ever hit the baseball field. Jackson born on May 18, 1946 in Pennsylvania into a family of eight. After his parents split, Jackson was sent to live with his father. All through high school, he excelled at sports, ...

On this day, Mary McLeod Bethune died at the age of 79. Her will, titled “My Last Will and Testament” is a commentary about her many accomplishments and life. Bethune was a fierce educator and black leader of the 20th Century. She was born in South Carolina on July 10, 1875, to parents who ...

Born to a White man of wealth and freed Black woman in 1755, Vincent Oge was a free man of color who was one of the main voices against White rule in Saint-Domingue--later Haiti. He would use his education and status to ignite the Oge Rebellion in the French colony during late 1790.   ...

John Roy Lynch, a veteran of the Civil War and Spanish-American War, was the only black Representative from Mississippi for nearly a century. He fought to keep his Republic leadership in the state of violent Democratic opposition. Lynch was an outspoken advocate for the Civil Rights Bill of ...

Lucy Diggs Slowe was one of the original sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. However, she was also the first African-American woman to win a major sports title, winning the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917. Slowe was born in Berryville, ...

You may or may not have heard of Merton D. Simpson. Simpson was one of the greatest painters and pioneers of African art. As an abstract expressionist painter,  Simpson had an exquisite taste that made him even more of an expert in his field. His work, an accumulated collection is said to be worth ...

By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele Photo credits: The Egypt Tours Portal Dr. Maulana Karenga is the creator of the Kawaida philosophy. He is a professor of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. Dr Karenga also co-founded the Us Organization-a revolutionary cultural ...

At Black Then, we frequently see interesting photos that give us a glimpse into the past. They tend to show us a piece of black history that is often not covered in textbooks, in history classes, or shown in the media. In a photo that we found on Black History Album , we see this great ...

T-Bone Walker was one of the most influential musicians of the early 20th century. He was a man of many talents including blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was also one of the first musicians to prove that a  guitar could go head-to-head with brass, pianos, and woodwinds as a ...