Barbara Ross-Lee
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African...
Category : Education
Elizabeth Ofili
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Because she had trained overseas, when Elizabeth Ofili, M.B.B.S., first came to the United States from Nigeria in 1982, she had to work especially hard...
Dr. Janice E. Douglas
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Dr. Janice E. Douglas, a fellow of the American Heart Association, decided to research hypertension and how cells control blood pressure after two of her...
William Leo Hansberry
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Historian and anthropologist, William Leo Hansberry began his college education at Atlanta University, but (at the urging of W.E.B. DuBois) he transferred to Harvard in...
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Melissa Harris-Perry is an American author, professor, television host, and political commentator who focuses on African American political issues. Harris-Perry has written for The Nation,...
Lucy Diggs Slowe
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Lucy Diggs Slowe lost both of her parents by the age of six and went to live with her Aunt Martha Price. She soon moved...
Dr. Edmund W. Gordon
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Dr. Edmund W. Gordon (born June 13, 1921, in Goldsboro, North Carolina), a professor of psychology, “had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology,...
Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Charlotte Forten Grimké, née Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten, (born August 17, 1837, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 23, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist and educator best...
John Brown Russwurm
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John Russwurm was born on Oct. 1, 1799, in Jamaica, British West Indies, of a Creole woman and a white American father. When his father...