According to History.com, Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln’s former law partner, friend and sometime bodyguard—told a famous story about the 16th U.S. president’s premonition of...
As you may know, 106 years ago today, on April 15th at 2:20 am, the Titanic sank with 1,514 people still aboard. What you may not know is that after the sinking of the Titanic in...
Did you watch the reboot of Cosmos this past Sunday? (Cosmos was originally hosted by Carl Sagan and aired as a 13 part series on PBS back in 1980). Carl Sagan was my very first...
We all know Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I have A Dream” speech, but what you may not know is that Dr. King had an actual, nighttime, REM dream that seemed...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Here’s a little known fact about this Saint that you may not know… He was born in Britain around the A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family with...
It’s now officially February, which means it is also officially Black History Month, which means I get to post about some of my favorite stories of notable figures in black...