today in black history

October 21, 2025

Jazz legend and band leader, Dizzy Gillespie, was born in 1917 in Cheraw, SC. He would become one of the genre's great ambassadors.

Back & Forth With Carl Sharif: Episode 4

POSTED: February 19, 2009, 10:30 am

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This week Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century.

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