Education & Politics
Meet the Black Twins Who Made History as Valedictorians at Spelman With a 4.0 GPA
In 2013, identical twins Kirstie and Kristie Bronner, were named co-valedictorians a…
History & Exploration
Queen Cleopatra Was Indeed a Black Woman — Here's 10 Strong Arguments Why!
Jada Pinkett-Smith's Netflix documentary African Queens about Queen Cleopatra V…
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The Infamous Letter That Frederick Douglas Wrote to Harriet Tubman
In the late 1800s, slavery was at its height as figures like Harriet Tubman and Freder…
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Richard Greener, the First Black Student to Graduate from Harvard
Established in 1636, Harvard Law School is an Ivy League university that prides itself…
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Oscar Micheaux, the First African-American Filmmaker
In 1919, filmmaking history was made when Oscar Micheaux b ecame the first-ever Africa…
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Meet Hercules Posey, George Washington’s Unsung Black Chef
Carla Hall, Marcus Samuelsson, Robert W. Lee - These are the names of only three of Am…
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Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Continues Her Fight Against Racism in Schools
Ruby Bridges is famously known for being the first African-American child to desegrega…
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Vivian Malone Jones, the First Black Graduate of the University of Alabama
In 1965, a woman named Vivian Malone Jones became the first African American to ever…
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First African American to Receive a Ph.D. From Harvard University
In 1895, history was made when a man named William Edward Burghardt Du Bois became t…
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More Than 40,000 Black Soldiers Were Killed in the Civil War
Due to the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Black men were allowed to serve…
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Cathay Williams, the First Black Female in the U.S. Military, Pretended to Be a Man
In 1866, the U.S. military unknowingly enlisted their first Black female soldier dur…
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Jane Bolin: America’s First Black Female Judge
After graduating from Wellesley College as a top student in 1928, Jane Bolin went on…
Education & Politics
Meet America's First Ever Black Female Senator
Carol Moseley Braun was born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. From an early…
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The Slave Who Cleverly Stole a Confederate Ship and Freed Himself With 15 Others
Robert Smalls was born as a slave in 1839, but later became a free man after he clev…
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MLK Was 15-Years Old When He Finished High School, and 19 When He Graduated College
Dr. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and had already graduated from …
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The First African Americans to Serve in Congress
Since 1870, 172 African Americans have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, or…
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The FBI Tried to Destroy Martin Luther King, Jr
Through Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle to liberate people of color from discrimin…
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Meet the First Black Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress
Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924. She later bec…
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Meet the First Black Federal Judge in the United States
William Hastie was the first African American to become a federal judge. He was appo…
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Black Woman Who is Deaf and Blind Graduates From Harvard Law School
Being both blind and deaf didn't stop 25-year old Haben Girma from making histo…
