Performance poet and author J. Ivy remembers rapper Notorious B.I.G.

Community organizer and author Melvin Bray celebrates Dillard University's first black president, William Stuart Nelson

Author and community activist Romal Tune shares some history on the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the U.S., Freedom's Journal

Director and writer Nzingha Stewart shares some background on the African American newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel

Today we share some background on the U.S. Army's first training camp for "colored" officers

Tune in for a little background on the African American periodical, Atlanta Daily World

Tune in for some history on the Pulitzer Prize winning play "A Soldier's Story"

Today we share some background on the Lorraine Hansberry play "A Raisin in the Sun"

Recording artist and radio host Money B shares some history on Maya Angelou's screenplay "Georgia, Georgia"

Tune in for a special narrative on the film "House Party" delivered by one of its stars, Bowlegged Lou from the group Full Force