Education & Politics
Rutgers University Appoints It's First Ever Black President in 253 Years
Jonathan Holloway, who formally served as the dean of Yale College, has been appoin…
Business & Inventions
First Black-Owned Company to Go Public on the Stock Market
Johnson Products, which manufactured a popular line of hair care and cosmetic produ…
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,…
