CHANCELLOR J. WILLIAMS
Prominent in the pantheon of Afrocentric scholars is Chancellor James Williams, the son of a former slave, born on December 22, 1898, in Bennettsville, South...
Category : Education
Marcella Nunez
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Marcella Nunez is a physician and associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine. Most recently she was appointed by President-Elect Joe...
Dr. John Morton-Finney
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Dr. John Morton-Finney was an accomplished lawyer, civil rights activist, and academic who accumulated eleven degrees over the course of his life. Born in Kentucky...
Joseph L. Graves, Jr
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
William Augustus Hinton
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...
Mabel Byrd
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After graduating from Washington High School in Portland in 1914, Mabel Byrd made history as the first African American enrolled at the University of Oregon....
Vanessa Northington Gamble
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., is a University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University. She is the first woman and first African American...
Sherman James
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African American epidemiologist and health researcher Sherman James is known for his concept of “John Henryism,” which attributes the premature deaths of African Americans to...
Frederick Stephen Humphries
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Frederick Stephen Humphries served as president of two historically black colleges – Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, between 1974 and 1985, and Florida A&M...
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
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Research physicist and physics professor Sekazi K. Mtingwa was born on October 20, 1949, in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his B.S. degrees in physics and...