Category: History

Opera singer Gregory Gardner was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 31, 1950, to Earl Gardner, a singer from Aliceville, Alabama, and Dorothy Davis Gardner, a soprano and piano player…

Claudia Lynn Thomas is an orthopedic surgeon, civil rights activist, and change agent. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950 and raised in Queens, New York. She studied…

George Alfred Strait, III, an award-winning journalist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1945. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Boston University in 1967 and earned a…

Marlin Oliver “The Magician” Briscoe was a football quarterback for the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). When the Denver (Colorado) Broncos drafted him in 1968, Briscoe…

John Henderson Cartwright is a minister, and university administrator, was born in Houston, Texas, on August 17, 1933, he graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in the city in 1950.Upon…

Paul Timothy Roberts Sr., an academic fellow of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey in Celigny, Switzerland, and an activist. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in the…

Elijah Saunders, M.D., was a cardiologist and expert on hypertension whose work addressed issues of race and ethnicity in healthcare.Saunders was born in Maryland on December 9, 1934, the son…

Frank Charles Coleman was an American physicist who co-founded Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, one of the oldest African American Greek letter organizations, with more than 750 chapters globally. He was…

Mildred Coleman Crump became the first African American councilwoman in the 336-year history of the Newark City Council in New Jersey when she assumed office in 1994. She is also…

Angela Evelyn Bassett is an actress and producer known for her depictions of powerful women in history on stage, television, and in major movies.Bassett was born on August 16, 1958,…