Category: History

Shirley Mahaley Malcom, a Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and publisher of the Science family of journals, was…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Maxwell Alejandro Frost, an Afro-Cuban activist, organizer, and musician, is the first member of Gen Z…

Thomas P. Bostick was the 53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Bostick is the only African American…

Emilia Strong Sykes is a Democratic politician who is now serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 13th Congressional District. She was sworn into that post on January 3, 2023.Sykes…

Valerie Foushee is a politician, a member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 4th congressional district since January 2023. She was born Valerie Jean…

On January 6, 2023, New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries gave his first speech before the U.S. House of Representatives as the leader of the Democratic Caucus. He is the first…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Aliyah Boston is a basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the University of South…

Evan Dale Abel, a pioneering endocrinologist, and advocate for more Black men being accepted into medical school, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on February 4, 1963. His father and mother…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Sheila Guyse was an actress, and singer during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born Etta…

Laura and L.D. Nelson were a mother and son who were dragged from a jail and lynched in Oklahoma, on May 25, 1911. Austin Nelson married Laura in 1896, and…