Napa Valley’s First Black-Owned Estate Winery Scores Partnership with Delta Air Lines
Photo: Brown Estate Winery Thanks to Carlyne Scott, a leading member of Delta Air Line’s Black community business resource group, the first and only Black-owned estate winery in California’s Napa Valley has landed a partnership with the Atlanta based airline. While Scott initially suggested that Brown Estate wines be added to Delta’s domestic flights during Black History Month, […]
Antoinette Harris Just Made History With Full College Football Scholarship
Photo: Michael Tran/FilmMagic After receiving six college football scholarship offers, Antoinette “Toni” Harris has signed a letter of intent to play football for Missouri’s Central Methodist University and made history while doing it. The 22-year-old is now “the first female skill position player to sign a letter of intent to play college football on a scholarship,” Central […]
Golf Pioneer Lee Elder to Become First African American to Receive the United States Golf Association’s Highest Honor
Photo via: CNN The legendary Lee Elder began to break down barriers as a professional golfer back in the 1970’s and continues to do so today. The 84-year-old will now be honored by the United States Golf Association (USGA) with its highest honor, the Bob Jones Award. As the first African American to receive this award […]
For the First Time in History, Chicago Will Have a Black Woman as Mayor
Photo: Ben Winck On Tuesday, February 26th, in a mayoral race with 14 candidates, two Black women emerged as the front runners — Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle. Meaning that for the first time ever, a Black woman will lead Chicago, the nation’s third largest city. Lightfoot, a former Chicago Police Board president and assistant […]
First African American Woman to Command a U.S. Navy Ship Joins IBM Board of Directors
Photo: David Yellen On Tuesday, IBM (International Business Machines) announced Admiral Michelle J. Howard as the newest member of its board. Howard made history in 1999 when she became the first African American woman to command a U.S. Navy ship, and then again in 2014 when she became the first African American and the first […]
The Obamas Helped the National Portrait Gallery Break a Visitor Record
Photo: Matt McClain/Getty Images The official portraits of forever President and First Lady, Barack and Michelle Obama, were unveiled on February 12, 2018. Since then, the National Portrait Gallery “had a record-breaking 2.3 million visitors in 2018, about a million more than in 2017,” reports the Washington Post. The reason why? Two words: The Obamas. Photo: Michael S. […]
Black Excellence: High School Senior Accepted into over 30 Colleges Chooses Full Ride to Fisk University
Photo via: Jamar Robinson, Westlake High School Principal College acceptance letters have been pouring in for Kayla E. Willis, who has now been offered admission to over 30 colleges and universities. While working part-time and taking on a full IB schedule, the West Lake High School student ended her first semester of senior year with all A’s and a full-ride […]
Belinda Bennett is Setting Sail as the World’s First Black Woman Cruise Ship Captain
Photo: Windstar Cruises If you’re a woman working in the cruise ship industry, then you’re more than likely to be the only woman, or one of very few women, working within your organization. Right now, women make up 18 to 20 percent of the cruise ship workforce, with the first woman cruise ship captain not being […]
NASA Facility Officially Renamed after Katherine Johnson
Photo: Getty Images It’s official! NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia is now called the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. The 100-year-old former hidden figure was responsible for calculating historic flight trajectories for the first American to go into space, for the first American to orbit earth, as well as the flight […]
Ryan Coogler Meeting a Young ‘Black Panther’ Fan is the Epitome of Why Representation Matters
Photo: Getty Images There’s no award that can compare to the impact that ‘Black Panther’ has made on the film industry and more importantly, on Black children. Case in point: Ryan Coogler’s priceless encounter with a young fan on an episode of Epix’s “Elvis Goes There.” In it, the filmmaker meets a little girl dressed as […]