Business & Inventions
It Took Only 16 Hours to Destroy Black Wall Street — 1,000 Black-Owned Businesses and Homes!
Established in 1906, Black Wall Street (originally known as Greenwood Avenue) was a…
Business & Inventions
Meet the Founder of the Oldest and Largest Black-Owned Life Insurance Company
North Carolina Mutual is one of the most influential African-American businesses in…
Public Service
The History of the First African American Fire Company in Chicago
Engine 21 was Chicago’s first organized paid African American Firefighting Company. E…
History & Exploration
Meet Frank Wills, the Security Guard Who Discovered President Nixon’s Watergate Scandal
Frank Wills was an African American private security guard who was on-duty during t…
Business & Inventions
Meet Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
In the mid-1800's, Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known African American figur…
Education & Politics
The Truth About America's First Black Public High School
Originally established in 1870, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School located in Washingto…
Sports & Entertainment
The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater
In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T. Motts opened the Pekin Thea…
History & Exploration
Meet the First Black Woman to Successfully Climb Mount Everest
In 2006, Sophia Danenberg became the first African American and the first Black wom…
Education & Politics
First African-American FBI Agent Finally Recognized 100 Years After Being Hired
After 100 years, the FBI has finally recognized James Wormley Jones as the agency&#…
Food & Beverages
The Potato Chip Was Invented by a Black Man Named George Crum
There are a few stories about the invention of the potato chip, but the most reliab…
