Every Year INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY 1150s BORN 1157: KING RICHARD I OF ENGLAND (THE LION-HEARTED) 1500s 1504: MICHELANGELO’S DAVID STATUE WAS UNVEILED IN FLORENCE, ITALY 1560s 1565: DON PEDRO MENÉNDEZ DE AVILÉS FOUNDED WHAT BECAME ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA 1565: THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN WHAT […]

1530s BORN 1533: QUEEN ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND 1540s DIED 1548: CATHERINE PARR (WIDOW OF HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND) 1860s BORN 1860: GRANDMA MOSES (PAINTER) BORN 1867: J. P. MORGAN JR. (FINANCIER) 1880s 1888: EDITH ELEANOR MCLEAN WAS THE FIRST BABY TO BE PLACED IN […]

LABOR DAY Always the first Monday in September, Labor Day is meant as a tribute to the American worker to whom the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country is made possible. The holiday started modestly in cities and towns, with the first celebration on […]

HAMPTON, Va. – Hitting the field for the first time since Nov. 23, 2019, the Hampton Pirates got 143 yards from Darran Butts and 136 from Elijah Burris as they defeated Virginia Union 42-28 on Saturday night. Hampton got on the board with a pair […]

1780s 1781: LOS ANGELES FOUNDED BY SPANISH SETTLERS 1800s BORN 1803: SARAH CHILDRESS POLK (U.S. FIRST LADY) 1820s 1821: RUSSIAN DECREE ISSUED CONCERNING NORTHWEST AMERICA200 Years Ago BORN 1824: ANTON BRUCKNER (COMPOSER) 1830s 1833: TEN-YEAR-OLD BARNEY FLAHERTY BECAME FIRST NEWSBOY IN THE U.S. HE WORKED […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Search for Tomorrow is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. Set in the fictional town of Henderson in an unspecified state, the show focused primarily on the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The UAB football team dominated all three phases of the game en route to a 31-0 shutout victory over Jacksonville State on Wednesday night in the Montgomery Kickoff at the Cramton Bowl. The Blazers outgained the Gamecocks 518-155, marking UAB’s first 500-yard game […]

COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Diana Nyad/ˈnaɪˌæd/ (née Sneed; born August 22, 1949) is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan (28 mi or 45 km) and in 1979 when she swam from North Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida (102 mi (164 km)). In 2013, […]

Every Year MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1550s DIED 1557: JACQUES CARTIER (EXPLORER) 1710s DIED 1715: LOUIS XIV, KING OF FRANCE 1730s 1730: DEBORAH READ ROGERS BECAME THE COMMON-LAW WIFE OF BEN FRANKLIN 1790s BORN 1792: CHESTER HARDING (PAINTER) BORN 1795: JAMES GORDON BENNET (FOUNDER OF NEW […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Vicki Keith Munro, CM, O.Ont (born 26 February 1961 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a retired Canadian marathon swimmer. She currently holds 16 world records and has received over 41 honours and awards, having crossed many of the world’s most challenging bodies of water. To date, she has raised over […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa junior center Tyler Linderbaum has been named a preseason first-team All-American by the Associated Press.   Linderbaum (6-foot-3, 290-pounds) was a finalist for the Rimington Trophy a year ago and earned first-team All-America honors from The Athletic and Pro Football Focus. He was a […]

1630s BORN 1632: JOHN LOCKE (PHILOSOPHER) 1800s BORN 1809: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. (AUTHOR) 1860s 1866: FIRST PEPPERSASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE DEMONSTRATION ON THE MOUNT WASHINGTON COG RAILWAY TOOK PLACE DIED 1868: CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHÖNBEIN (CHEMIST) 1870s DIED 1877: BRIGHAM YOUNG (MORMON LEADER) 1910s BORN 1915: […]

1. Alabama (13-0 in 2020, No. 1 in final AP Poll) 2. Clemson (10-2 in 2020, No. 3 in final AP Poll) 3. Oklahoma (9-2 in 2020, No. 6 in final AP Poll) 4. Georgia (8-2 in 2020, No. 7 in final AP Poll) 5. Iowa […]

All times Eastern. All schedules and networks subject to change. Week 0 Saturday, Aug. 28 Nebraska at Illinois | 1 p.m. | FOXUConn at Fresno State | 2 p.m. | CBSSNHawai’i at UCLA | 3:30 p.m. | ESPNEastern Illinois at Indiana State | 6 p.m. […]

NORFOLK, Va., July 30, 2021 – The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has announced its ESPN football package for the 2021 season, which features eight regular-season match-ups on ESPN, ESPNU and ESPN3 and one postseason appearance on ABC as part of its linear package. The nationally-televised games […]

Full Release BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- Southern’s Jordan Lewis and Florida A&M’s Markquese Bell have been named to the Buck Buchanan Award Preseason Watch List. In the history of the award there has been only one multiple-time winner but Southern’s Lewis will have a chance to complete that […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- Alabama A&M’s Aqeel Glass and Alcorn State’s Felix Harper have been named to the Walter Payton Award Preseason Watch List. Glass rewrote the record books this past season as he went 67-of-113 for 1,084 yards passing and 13 touchdowns during the regular season. One […]

Complete Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-American Team BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- A total of five Southwestern Athletic Conference football student-athletes have been named to the 2021 Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-American Team.  The list includes 2021 SWAC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Jordan Lewis. Joining him on […]

ATLANTA, Ga. – Alabama A&M senior quarterback Aqeel Glass (St. Louis, Mo.) added to a record-setting Spring 2021 campaign on Saturday, June 19 as he was presented with the Deacon Jones Trophy as the Black College Football Player of the Year as announced by the Black […]