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Daily history entries celebrating the people and moments that shaped us.
By T. Blackmann · September 3, 2026
On September 15, 1963, a bomb tore through 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair were killed. We remember them by name.
By T. Blackmann · September 18, 2026
In 1949, Jesse B. Blayton Sr. became the first Black American to own a radio station in the United States. WERD in Atlanta didn't just broadcast — it became a lifeline for the Civil Rights Movement.
