History & Exploration
Mexico Once Had a Black President — But He Was Executed!
Vicente Guerrero is the first and only Black person to have become President of Mex…
Business & Inventions
Meet the Inventor of the First Gas Mask and the Three-Position Traffic Light
Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in 1877 in an almost all-Black community outside o…
Business & Inventions
America’s First Black-Owned Shopping Plaza Celebrates 50 Years
Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the country's first and o…
Business & Inventions
Reginald Lewis Was America’s First Black Billionare — Long Before Oprah and Bob Johnson!
Reginald F. Lewis was the first African American to build a billion dollar company.…
Business & Inventions
Meet the Former Slave Turned Real Estate Investor Who Owned Several Laundromats
Clara Brown was a pioneer, a community leader, a philanthropist, and the first Afri…
Business & Inventions
Meet the Founder of One of the First 5-Story, Black-Owned Luxury Hotels
George Thomas Downing was an entrepreneur who founded the first and largest Black-o…
Technology
Meet the First Black Electrical Engineer Who Owned More Than 60 Patents
Granville Tailer Woods was the first African-American to become a mechanical and el…
History & Exploration
The First African American Woman to Become a Pilot For a Major U.S. Airline
In 1978, Jill E. Brown-Hiltz was hired as a pilot for Texas International Airlines,…
Education & Politics
Rodney Harrison Makes History as the First African American NYPD Chief of Detectives in 175 Years
The New York City Police Department has appointed Rodney Harrison as Chief of Detec…
Business & Inventions
Meet Annie Malone, the Millionaire Black Hair Care Icon Who Owned Several Mansions
Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone was the first Black woman to become a millionaire. She …
