today in black history

October 26, 2025

Edward W. Brooke, III, the first Black to serve in the U.S. Senate in the 20th century, is born in 1919 in Washington, D.C.

From The Bottom Up: Segment 7

POSTED: February 25, 2009, 12:00 am

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A profile of community activist George Tillman.

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