Category: History

Named after the famous poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments and Dunbar Garden Apartments, is a complex of ten separate…

The first Black mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Blessing Adeyemi (popularly known as Yemi) Mobolade was born in Lagos, Nigeria on February 12, 1979. His father worked for Exxon Mobile…

387 U.S. 369 (1967)REITMAN ET AL.v.MULKEY ET AL.No. 483.Supreme Court of United States.Argued March 20-21, 1967.Decided May 29, 1967.CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA.Samuel O. Pruitt, Jr., argued the…

Mboka Mwilambwe, born 1970 in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was elected as the first African American mayor of Bloomington, Illinois, in 2021. His father was…

Inez Beverly Prosser was a teacher, school administrator, psychologist, and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology in the United States. Her dissertation The Non-Academic Development…

Environmental advocate Angelou Ezeilo was born December 11, 1970, in Jersey City, New Jersey to parents Helen and Walter Chiles. As a child, during the summer her family traveled to…

Entertainment reporter A. J. Calloway was born Albert Johnson Calloway Jr. on August 29, 1974, to Ava Claire Calloway and Albert Johnson Calloway Jr. in Newark, New Jersey.In 1993, he…

Bisila Bokoko, the award-winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, women’s advocate, and global leadership speaker, was born Bisila África Bokoko Toichoa in Valencia, Spain, in 1974. Her international roots trace back to her…

The 2nd Cavalry Division was unique the U.S. Army in World II in that it was composed of Black and White troops as early as 1941, at a time when…

Martine Watkins, born in June 1980, became the first biracial mayor of Santa Cruz City, California, in 2020 and served a four-year term. Watkins grew up in Santa Cruz and…