Category: History

Professor Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies and current Chair of the History of Science Department…

Leland Melvin is a former NFL player, chemist, and retired NASA astronaut. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on February 15, 1964, to Deems and Grace Melvin. At an early…

On January 1, 1916, The Journal of Negro History (now The Journal of African American History), an award-winning peer viewed journal and the official periodical published by the Association for…

Karine Jean-Pierre is best known as the second Black woman (after Judy Smith in the George W. Bush White House), and the first openly gay woman, to ever hold the…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Toni Michele Braxton is an R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. Braxton was born on October 7,…

Let it play in the background as you study and immerse yourself in this topic!Naya Marie Rivera was an actress, singer, and model. Rivera was born on January 12, 1987,…

Businesswoman Ernesta Gertrude Forster, more commonly known as Ernesta Procope, was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 2, 1923. The year of her birth is contested, as public records…

Mark Damone Johnson is a professor of neurological surgery and Senior Consulting Vice Provost for Mentorship, Leadership and Transformation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the chair of…

Craig E. Cameron is the Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American Association…