Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924. She later bec…
William Hastie was the first African American to become a federal judge. He was appo…
Dr. Mae Jemison was born on October 17, 1956, in Alabama. As an engineer, physician,…
The tradition of wearing Easter hats, or Easter bonnets, dates back many, many years…
There is a wide variety of breakfast foods that many Americans enjoy, but one that s…
In the 1980s, a major surge of drug use hit the streets of New York City that mostly…
Matthew Henson, an African American explorer who was born in Charles County Maryland…
Despite living during a time when music in America was divided into two categories — p…
Eunice Carter, born in 1899, was raised in a world of stultifying expectations about…
It has been rumored for years that a Black woman named Amelia Bassano Lanier was the…