Hip-hop royalty Salt-N-Pepa will receive their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Andrea Hayes Dixon, M.D., has made history as the first Black woman dean of the Howard University College of Medicine in the institution’s 154-year history.
Megan Piphus Peace has become the first Black woman puppeteer in Sesame Street history.
Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor and a pioneering Black journalist, has died. He was 82.
Sixty high schools across the United States have started offering Advanced Placement AP African American studies courses.
Pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman was honored in a big way.
Dr. Willie Morrow, a well known San Diego publisher and Black hair care pioneer who invented the Afro Pick, passed away at his home surrounded by...
Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on Thursday as the newest Supreme Court justice — becoming the first Black woman ever to serve on the high...
Morgan Cato has made history as the first Black woman Assistant General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations for an NBA team.
Trudy Haynes, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who became the first Black TV weather reporter in the U.S. and the first Black TV reporter in Philadelphia, has...
