Born just after World War II, Jane Cooke Wright was exposed to greatness at a young age, as her father was one of the first black graduates from Harvard Medical School. Wright car…

Born as a free black woman in 1894, Sarah Parker Remond had a more stable life as a child than the grand majority of black Americans in her time. According to BlackPast , Remond h…

Born in 1810, William Leidesdorff was a biracial West Indian immigrant who grew up in what is now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was the son of a Danish man and a woman of &…

Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth was a legendary abolitionist and fighter for equal rights in America. Truth spent the majority of her young life as a slave in New York, sufferi…

As a daughter to free black parents, Frances Watkins Harper was one of few black children in the 1820s who weren't born into slavery. Harper learned to use this unique positio…

During the early 1800s, the United States was still growing and the spread of businesses hadn't reached even a fraction of the scale it had today. This gave inventive people s…

On August 2nd, 1776, America declared itself a new country through the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Founding fathers and congress members gathered together in the P…

In the late 1800s, slavery was at its height as figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass made plans to dismantle the entire slave trade. Not many people know, however, t…

Walt Disney Animation Studios, one of the world's largest and most profitable film studios today, has been around for many decades. Not many know, however, that it took 25 f…

Born in 1799, Alexander Pushkin would one day grow up to become who many consider to be the Father of Russian Literature. Not only were his poems and passages an eye-opener to Rus…

The fashion business has broken societal norms by the dozen, but 11-year old Kheris Rogers has certainly made a name for herself in the fashion industry. In 2017, she became the y…

BP, a world-class multinational oil and gas company, changed its direction of leadership back in 2017 when they appointed their fir st-ever black female CEO,  Priscillah Mabelane.…

Boxing is a sport that has been around since ancient times, starting in the Olympics as a bloody-knuckled contest to become a champion. Many years have passed since then and in 18…

Up until 1964, the skies above America were populated only by white pilots. Although there had been some pilots of differing races during wartime, commercial flights were not flow…

Established in 1636, Harvard Law School is an Ivy League university that prides itself on accepting only the top scholars who apply to it.  However, its exclusivity didn't com…

In 1976, Janice Howroyd began her journey to becoming the first black woman to own and run a company now worth $420 million. According to Entrepreneur , Howroyd's story began …

In 1919, filmmaking history was made when Oscar Micheaux b ecame the first-ever African American to direct and make his own feature film. Micheaux got his start early when he wrot…

In Jan uary of 2021, the NFL went an entirely new and exciting direction with its staffing when Jennifer King  was named assistant running backs coach for the Washington Football…