Black History Fact

Celebrating inventor William H. Richardson, who patented an improvement on the baby carriage...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Althea Gibson the first Black tennis player to win at Wimbledon and the first black woman to join the LPGA [Ladies Professional Golf Association] Tour..

Black History Fact

Celebrating Arthur L. Reese the first Black resident and official decorator of Venice Beach, CA...

Black History Fact

Celebrating formerly enslaved abolitionist and philanthropist Clara Brown...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Captain Marlon Green the first pilot to be hired by a major airline after a Supreme Court fight, desegregating the airline industry...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Euphemia Lofton Haynes, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Julian Francis Abele the first Black graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's architect program and designer of multiple landmarks...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Eatonville, FL the first all-Black city incorporated in the United States...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Jane Minor, an abolitionist and herbal healer who was freed in 1825 after helping during an epidemic in Petersburg, VA. Minor then trained other Black nurses and spent the money she earned from medical house-calls to purchase the freedom of other enslaved women and children...

Black History Fact

Celebrating the once thriving Black town of Kowaliga [Benson], AL that was flooded to create Lake Martin...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Dr. William Montague Cobb the first Black person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology and who used science to combat racism...

Black History Fact

Celebrating inventor Nathaniel Alexander who patented the design for the folding chair...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Dr. William Hooper Councill, former slave and founder of the Huntsville Normal School in Alabama that became Alabama A&M University....

Black History Fact

Celebrating Rev. William Reuben Pettiford who co-founded the Alabama Penny Savings Bank, the first Black owned and operated bank in Alabama...

Black History Fact

Celebrating author, orator, politician and community organizer Tunis Campbell...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Osbourn Dorsey inventor of the modern doorknob and doorstop....

Black History Fact

Celebrating 21-year-old Texas Tech pitcher, NiJaree Canady, the first college softball player to sign a $1 million NIL [name, image and likeness] deal...

Black History Fact

Celebrating staunch abolitionist and shipping magnate, Paul Cuffee, one of the first Black millionaires in the United States who led the first Back to Africa movement...

Black History Fact

Celebrating Ida Gray Nelson Rollins the first Black woman in the United States to earn a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and practice dentistry...

Black History Fact

Celebrating engineer Raye Montague the first person to draft a naval ship design using a computer...