The Committe To Honor Black Heroes was founded in 1975 by Sonny Abubadika Carson, who also helped establish both Medgar Evers College and the Restoration Plaza, which houses our office today. Sonny brought about the Black Men's Movement against Crack, a direct action intitiative to shut down crack houses during the peak of the drug epidemic. Carson was also instrumental in the creation of the December 12, Movement, an organization of African Americans and allies who fight against institutional racism. A film about Sonny's life "The Education of Sonny Carson is now a classic and can be found in the New York Public Library. Sonny Carson past away on December 20, 2002 at Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan.

The Commitee to Honor Black Heroes along with Sonny Abubadika Carson the founder oversaw the renaming of Brooklyn Streets after noteworthy African Americans, sucah as Malcolm X Boulevard, Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Brooklyn's Fulton Street in tribute to Harriet Tubman Avenue. African American Heroes always to be remebered.