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

Adichie defines a feminist as “a man or woman who says yes there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.” (Read more...)

Woods registered close to 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph in which he defeated Thomas Edison's lawsuit. (Read more...)

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

On December 5th 2020, history was made as Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a 5 years contract worth $228 million with the Milwaukee Bucks. (Read more...)

Dr. Williams also founded the first interracial hospital in the United States. (Read more...)

Jesse Owens is the athlete who alone succeeded in 1936 in seizing up the Nazi propaganda machine, by becoming the first black athlete of international renown. (Read more...)

In November 2015, Wellington Jighere inscribed his name in gold letters into the history of the game of Scrabble. During the World English-language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) finals, he defeated his English oponent Lewis MacKay with four straight wins, making him the first African to win the English-Language World Scrabble Championship. (Read more...)

If you have ever used FaceTime, Skype or WhatsApp to communicate, then you should thank Marian Croak. The so-called "Ma Bell" made it all possible, thanks to her leadership and forward-thinking vision. (Read more...)

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