Sports & Entertainment
Former WNBA Player Becomes 1st Black Woman to Coach Men’s College Basketball Team
Tamara Moore, a former WNBA player, is the first African American woman to become t…
Sports & Entertainment
The First African American Player to be Drafted into the NBA
In 1950, Chuck Cooper became the first African American basketball player ever sele…
Education & Politics
Black Woman Earns Two Degrees From Two Different Universities in the Same Week
In 2019, Ashley Williams made history after earning two degrees simultaneously from…
Education & Politics
Ruby Bridges Was the First Black Girl to Attend an All-White School in the South
Ruby Bridges, born in 1954, was the first African American student to attend an all-w…
Health & Science
Black Doctor Removed a Baby, Operated on Her, and Then Safely Returned Her to Her Mother's Womb
In 2016, Dr. Oluyinka O. Olutoye (who is from Nigeria) made history after he succes…
Public Service
First Black Woman Judge to Serve on Washington's Supreme Court
In April 2020, Judge G. Helen Whitener became the first African American woman to be …
Writing & Publishing
Meet the First Black Woman to Cover the White House
Alice Allison Dunnigan had a natural talent for writing, and nothing prevented her fr…
Public Service
Meet the Black Doctor Fighting COVID-19 as the Director General of WHO
Meet Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the man who is currently taking the lead as Dire…
Public Service
Meet the Man Who Became America's First Black Doctor in 1837
Dr. James McCune Smith, one of the leaders of the movement in the 1800s to abolish sl…
Health & Science
Black Woman Makes History as the 1st Doctor to Cure Cancer Using Nanoparticles
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is a physicist best known as the first person to have succ…
Education & Politics
12-Year Old Genius Makes Historical Mathematics Discovery
Chika Ofili, a 12-year old boy from the UK has made a significant mathematical discov…
Health & Science
The Scientist Behind the Ebola Cure is Black
Ebola can no longer be called an incurable disease thanks to Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyem…
