25-Year-Old Singer H.E.R. Is Officially One Tony Away From EGOT Status
She’s doing big things! Gabriella Wilson, also known as H.E.R, which stands for “Having Everything Revealed,” has been topping charts and making history. From being the first Black female artist to launch her own Fender Signature Guitar to being a Disney princess in ABC’s Beauty and the Beast, Wilson is a Jill of all trades! With the talent […]
4 Things You Didn’t Know About The First Black Woman To Graduate From College
We just celebrated the 172nd anniversary of her graduation! Lucy Ann Stanton Day Sessions is largely believed to be the first woman to graduate from college. She was an educator, an abolitionist and a writer. While there has been some dispute over the years, some crediting Mary Jane Patterson as the first woman to graduate and […]
This Georgia Tech Honor Student Won Almost $70,000 On Wheel of Fortune
He plays for keeps! Georgia native Quincy Howard definitely brought his A-game last month on Wheel of Fortune during their College Week show. Howard is a 4.0 sophomore majoring in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was also an honor graduate in high school and the valedictorian of his class. “I knew every time I would spin, I […]
Black-Owned Art Galleries To Visit In NYC When You’re Tired of Dinner and a Movie
Here’s a date idea: take them to a Black-owned art gallery. A typical date in NYC usually looks like bar hopping in LES or cuddling in a movie theater. While there’s nothing wrong with a good cuddle session that lasts the entire three hours of Black Panther 2, sometimes we just need a better reason to […]
Meet The Golden Fourteen, The First Black Women To Serve In The U.S. Navy
It’s time to give them their flowers! The United States military has long struggled with racism, with a 2018 survey by the Military Times reporting that more than half of their respondents of color identified with experiencing racism from their peers, Atlas Obscura reports. Despite the moral stain on the armed forces, Black people have long served […]
Here’s Everything You Never Learned About Larry Doby, The First Black Baseball Player In The American League
He would’ve been 99 years young! Larry Doby was born Lawrence Eugene Doby on December 13, 1923 in Camden, South Carolina, Ohio History Central reports. He eventually moved to Paterson, New Jersey where he was raised, finding his passion in sports at an early age. He shined in a number of sports, including football, baseball, and basketball, eventually attending […]
5 Useful Things We Could All Learn From America’s First Black Billionaire, Reginald Lewis
He would’ve been 80 years old this past December 7th! Reginald F. Lewis was a pioneering businessman from Baltimore, MD who rose through the corporate ranks to become America’s first Black billionaire. One of the richest Black men in the world during the 80s, Lewis blazed a trail in his short five decades on earth and opened […]
Oscar Award-Winning Actress Octavia Spencer Now Has a Star On the Hollywood Walk of Fame
She’s well deserving of this one! 26 years ago, Octavia Spencer left Alabama to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, making her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Since then, she’s been in numerous notable films, even stepping into the producer’s seat as executive producer of Green Book and the horror movie Ma. Spencer was a star […]
Lights, Caramel, Action: Ava DuVernay Is the First Black Woman On Pints of Her Own Ben & Jerry’s Flavor
We’re all screaming for this ice cream! Ava DuVernay announced she has an ice cream flavor releasing with Ben & Jerry’s, the popular ice cream brand that has used their platform for global activism since 1978. Ben & Jerry’s most recent limited edition flavor was “Change is Brewing,” made in collaboration with Black Voters Matter. […]
Dr. George Franklin Grant: The Inventor, Dentist, & Harvard’s First Black Professor
He was a pioneer in every sense of the word! George Franklin Grant was born in 1846 to parents Tudor Elandor and Phillis Pitt Grant, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine reports. Tudor was born into slavery in 1800, running away from Maryland before settling in Oswego, New York in 1832. The elder Grant became a fierce […]