At 33, Carson became the youngest head of pediatric neurosurgery in all of the United States. (Read more...)

In the early 2000s, when the Tanzanian government privatized loss-making companies, Mo Dewji acquired them cheaply and made them profitable. (Read more...)

If you have ever used FaceTime, Skype or WhatsApp before, you should thank Marian Croak. (Read more...)

Boseman perfectly incarnated the Black Panther, as both King and a black superhero, first of its kind to defend his people, stand for justice and evict intruders from his country. (Read more...)

Bath is the first African-American woman to specialize in ophthalmology. (Read more...)

Since her movie debut, Mortal Inheritance in 1996, the movie icon and singer has starred in over 300 movies and has steadily risen to be nicknamed the ‘Queen of Nollywood’. (Read more...)

A woman, black woman, foreign black woman in America as Enonchong described herself in SeedStar launched her first tech company in 1999 in the United States called AppsTech. (Read more...)

Nikole argues that the history of the United States does not begin in 1776 with the declaration of independence, but in 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves in Virginia. (Read more...)

Garrett received a patent in 1923 and the rights to the invention were eventually purchased by General Electric at $40,000. This was a huge sum at the time, especially for a Black, being the son of two former slaves and aged just 46 years old. (Read more...)

Born a slave, married at 14, mother at 17 and widowed at 20. (Read more...)