Black History Month

Purnell Steen, a classical jazz pianist who struggled against bias against Black musicians as a student, recalls the moment that made him decide to return to music.

Purnell Steen talks about the bias Black students faced in the 1960s trying to pursue classical music and how they continue to be discriminated against in all other aspects of their education at the dawn of the civil rights era.

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Elizabeth Williams, a former Philadelphia nurse and hospital superintendent, talks about fighting for acceptance as a Black medical professional in the medical system and how discrimination followed her career from hospital to hospital.

Elizabeth Williams recalls fighting through bias as a Black nurse in Philadelphia throughout the early 60s.

Elizabeth Williams, a Black nurse who had worked her way up to hospital superintendent despite overwhelming racial bias, talks about working through that bias as a young Black student going into nursing in 1930s Philadelphia.

The San Diego Association of Black Journalists is offering free scholarship money to local high school seniors and college students.

Dalsean Lynch started a non-profit that helps people make positive changes.

A San Diego-based artist is celebrating Civil Rights movements and natural hair with a new design that champions them both with one word to describe them: power.

Long before Misty Copeland became the principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, she says she was in touch with her identity as a Black girl in America.

WNBA Great Sheryl Swoopes talks about how her perception of what it means to be Black in America has changed since her playing career ended.

Hear Basketball Hall of Famer Marques Johnson recount the first time he had to think about the impact of race while he was a first grader in Los Angeles.

San Diego’s Hotel Douglas, also known as the “Harlem of the West,” was an important spot for Black entertainers in the 1930s. NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews speaks with Shelby Gordon of the San Diego History Center for more on the historic and trailblazing hub.