Oda Nobunaga breached the Japanese culture of no bestowal of the rank of Samurai to a foreigner and bestowed the honourable position to Yasuke Kurusan. (Read more...)

Jackson is the first black woman among 115 justices to serve on the Supreme Court, since its establishment in 1789. (Read more...)

Thursday 7th of October 2021, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to be Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah making him the first Black to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. (Read more...)

On Friday, May 20 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron shocked his country men and Elisabeth Borne's administration with the appointment of historian Pap Ndiaye as Minister of Education and Youths in France. (Read more...)

On July 15, 2013, Patrisse Cullors together with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi co-founded the Black Lives Matter Movement in order to protect Blacks against racial discrimination, elevate Black lives and consciousness and prevent police brutality in the United States. (Read more...)

"The IIAG is the most accurate picture of what is going on in Africa, based on data, not personal views or political bias." - Mo Ibrahim (Read more...)

Burns started at the bottom of the ladder as an intern at Xerox and worked her way up to CEO. (Read more...)

Nahum manufactures and markets medical robots for surgery, the latest of which is a robotic solution for the minimally invasive treatment of liver cancer. (Read more...)

In 1998, Johnson and his partners, sold BET Holding to Viacom, a giant media group. Though it was sold at $3 billion, Johnson still remained the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BET until 2005. That sale made Johnson America's first Black billionaire. (Read more...)

On November 24, 2021, Ibe posted the representation of a black foetus in the womb on social media. The illustration went viral in the medical world and beyond. (Read more...)