today in black history

June 16, 2026

Author John Howard Griffin, who posed as a Black man for his seminal book on southern racism,"Black Like Me," was born in 1920.

Today in Black America: 08.19.09

With Brette Dawson

POSTED: August 19, 2009, 12:00 am

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