Sports & Entertainment
Meet the First Ever African American Head Coach in NFL History
In 1920, Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard became one of the first two Afr…
Civil Rights
Who Was Jim Crow? Was He a Real Person?
The name Jim Crow is used to refer to a set of local and state laws that once advoc…
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…
