This Psychotherapist Is On A Mission To Make Sure Black Women Feel Supported In A Global Pandemic
Bea Arthur’s online platform The Difference offers tools to make therapy accessible to those who are historically denied emotional support: Black women. As the world reels from the devastation and…
Howard University Graduate Becomes Air Force Thunderbirds’ First Black Female Officer
With the coronavirus pandemic taking over all aspects of our lives, the country has been using several methods to show our appreciation to front line healthcare workers and associates. The…
The Man Introducing China to Afrobeats Through Dance
Until COVID-19 hit, Ghanaian artist Yoofi Greene was China’s Afrobeats evangelist. Now he’s eager to return and finish what he started. From his home in southern China, Yoofi Greene kept an eye…
Africa’s top COVID-19 technocrats: Africa CDC’s John Nkengasong
The coronavirus pandemic has seized the world in multiple ways, snuffing lives out of humans, economies and everyday activities of millions across the globe. The fight against the rampaging virus…
High School Senior Makes History With 5.6 GPA, Becomes First Black Valedictorian at His School
Nationwide — Timi Adelakun, a senior at South Broward High School in Hollywood, Florida, has made history for being the school’s first Black valedictorian and for having a 5.6 GPA…
Shaking Up The Status Quo: 3 Young African Entrepreneurs Committed To Social Transformation
According to the African Development Bank Group, of Africa’s nearly 420 million youth aged 15-35, one-third are unemployed, another third are vulnerably employed and only one in six is in…
Meet the Black Woman Mechanic Teaching Other Women How to Fix Cars
Sandra Aguebor is Nigeria’s first woman mechanic. She is also the founder of The Lady Mechanic Initiative, which teaches women from diverse backgrounds how to fix cars and become financially independent….
Hildreth Walker, the man who helped measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon
Hildreth “Hal” Walker, Jr., in 1969, led a team that adapted a ruby laser for measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission while working for…
Barbara Ross-Lee: First female Black dean of a U.S. medical school
Barbara Ross-Lee, sister to Diana Ross, is a physician and the first female Black dean of a United States medical school. Growing up in inner-city Detroit, Ross-Lee and her sister…
First Ever Black-Owned Bank — The Founder Was Once a Slave!
The history of The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers tells a fascinating story about the struggles and triumphs of Rev. William Washington Browne, a…
Niyi Akinmolayan is Making Sure the Kids are Well Informed about COVID-19
Just so everyone is well informed about coronavirus, updated on ways to stay clean and safe, Nigerian filmmaker and director Niyi Akinmolayan created an informative animation for the kids too. No one…
Trinidad’s Kalisa Villafana becomes first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Florida University
Kalisa Villafana made history last August as the first black female graduate at Florida State University (FSU) to earn a doctoral degree in nuclear physics. Villafana is thus, only the…
Did you know on February 27, 1872 Charlotte E. Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law and is credited as the first female African-American lawyer in the United States of America
Four days after her graduation on March 2, 1872, she was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar which also made her the first female to be admitted to the…
The FIRST African-American woman to own a luxury car dealership.
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The young female duo redefining laboratory science in Namibia
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Nkosi Johnson, A Voice of Change.
Nkosi Johnson was a South African child activist, born with HIV/AIDS who greatly influenced public perceptions of the virus and its affects. Born Xolani Nkosi on 4th February,1989 in Johannesburg…
Wrestler Aja Smith becomes first African-American female referee in WWE
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Celebrating “the life and legacy of a voice of change”: Google pays tribute to Nkosi Johnson
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Did you know on this day January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States of America?
Barack Obama defeated Republican, John Mclain, a senior senator from Arizona in the presidential election held on 4th November, 2008 becoming the first ever African-American to be elected to the Presidency. …