Kids REACT with joy because America included them. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris called a teen artist from California whose painting of her went viral.

The funeral service for Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings.

When Black leaders demanded equality and World War II demanded more skilled soldiers, the Tuskegee Airmen, or "Red-Tail Angels," became the first African American pilots to train for combat.

Sojourner Truth Speech of 1851 performed at Kansas State University's 8th Diversity Summit April 1, 2011. Performed by Pat Theriault

Tucker dedicated much of the last few years of her life to condemning sexually explicit lyrics in rap and hip-hop tracks, citing a concern that the lyrics were misogynistic and threatened the moral foundation of the African American community.

She describes working in print journalism for many years, covering politics for The Baltimore Evening Sun, Presidential Elections for The Washington Post and Clinton's election and the White House for The New York Times. 

Misty Copeland is only the second African-American woman ever to reach the level of soloist at American Ballet Theatre. Now the author of a new memoir, “Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina,”

An American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

Bishop Michael Curry, the first black leader of the Episcopal Church in the United States, delivered a 14-minute. impassioned sermon at the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 -- August 22, 1989) was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. The Black Panther Party or BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States...

Dr. Maya Angelou is a writer, an artist, a professor, a director, an activist... and a calypso singer!