Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2026

Victor Glover Gives Post Mission Remarks


Over the weekend NASA pilot, Victor Glover, and the crew of Artemis II made a perfect splash down after their journey past the moon.

Glover, who is the first Black NASA pilot, makes his post mission remarks...

Black History Fact


Celebrating microbiologist, Dr. Clifford Wayne Houston, the first Black president of the American Society of Microbiology...

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating abolitionist, Reverend Josiah Henson, the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Friday, April 10, 2026

Black History Fact


Understanding the Counter Intelligence Program [CoIntelPro] launched by J. Edgar Hoover in 1956 to monitor and disrupt civil rights movements across the United States...

Thursday, April 09, 2026

Black History Fact


Remembering The Black Codes, laws enacted after the civil war to limit the freedom of Black Americans...

Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating civil rights activists and restaurateur, Leah Chase, the inspiration for Tiana from Disney's 'The Princess and the Frog...'

Monday, April 06, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating St. Louis high school student, Ashanti Nurse, who has logged over 200 clinical hours as a medical assistant at St. Luke’s Hospital’s cardiology department, with the goal of becoming a cardiologist...

Sunday, April 05, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating humanitarian Clara Hale, affectionately known as Mother Hale, who founded the Hale House Center, a home for disadvantaged children and children who were born addicted to drugs...

Saturday, April 04, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating the 'Baby Nancy Doll,' who in 1968 became the first mass produced baby doll in the United States with ethic features...

Friday, April 03, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating aerospace engineer, Jeremy Plater, who works as a quality assurance specialist at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and who contributed greatly to the Artemis II rocket launch on April 1, 2026...

Thursday, April 02, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating NASA astronaut, Victor J. Glover, pilot for The Artemis II 10-day journey around the moon...

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Black History Fact


Remembering iconic civil rights photographer, Ernest C. Withers, who was also an FBI informant...

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Dr. Shay Allen Taylor, who worked as a janitor in Yale New Haven Hospital for ten years before returning as a doctor...

Monday, March 30, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Dr. Ashton Sellers, who at 32 years old became the youngest woman to own an animal hospital in Kansas City and the first Black woman to own an animal hospital in Kansas City...

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating professional golfer, Dr. Renee Powell, the second Black American woman to play on the LPGA [Ladies Professional Golf Association] Tour, Aletha Gibson was the first [click here if you missed that]...

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating Rear Adm. Lillian E. Fishburne, the Navy's first black female rear admiral....

Friday, March 27, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating engineer and physicist, Willie Hobbs Moore, the first American Black woman to earn a PhD in physics...

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating electrical engineer, Kimberly Bryant, who founded 'Black Girls Code' after noticing a lack of Black woman in STEM [Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics]...

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating, Lafayette Alonzo Tillman, the first Black police officer in Kansas City...

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Black History Fact


Celebrating the enslaved workers who built the White House and the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C....