Category : Politics

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....

Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the...

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...

Political leader The Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. was born on March 20, 1934, in Mineola, Texas to Minnie Collins Boyd and Willie Lewis Brown,...