today in black history

November 02, 2025

The bill sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday was signed into law in 1983.

Today in Black America: 07.13.08

POSTED: July 13, 2009, 5:55 pm

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