today in black history

July 03, 2025

Educator Dr. Ruth Simmons, the first Black president of Brown University, was born on this date in 1945 in Grapeland, Texas.

Walter L. Fields Jr.

Change

Jamal Spratley

POSTED: November 16, 2008, 5:53 am

NStv DC video correspondent Jamal Spratley explores the meaning of change with the election of Barack Obama.

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