Hugo Black had been associate justice of the Supreme Court for less than a month when the news broke. In September of 1937, an exposé by the Pittsburgh...
Benjamin Sterling Turner was born in North Carolina to parents who were slaves on March 17, 1825. Despite his humble beginnings, he became an entrepreneur,...
There is a very strong notion and believe by African Christians that Jesus Christ will save them from suffering and reverse the many hurts inflicted...
Loretta Lynch, in full Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.), an American lawyer who was the first African American woman...
Sharon Pratt Dixon was born on January 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlisle Pratt and Mildred (Petticord) Pratt. Carlisle was a Washington, D.C....
Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949, came from a middle-class background. His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was...
On January 15, 2009, Roland Wallace Burris was sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burris’s appointment made him the third African American U.S....
Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934, to sharecroppers. He received a Bachelor’s...