today in black history

February 21, 2026

El Haji Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem in New York City on this date in 1965.

Memo on Poverty, 1964

POSTED: November 30, -0001

A memo from the Johnson administration era that explored the policy ramifications of poverty in the United States.