Although her role is largely honorific, her emergence as a prominent leader brings hope in a country as conservative as Ethiopia. (Read more...)

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...)

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

John Nkengasong makes use of all African Union member states' expertise, Africa CDC and World Health Organization (WHO), to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Read more...)

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

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...)

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

Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a psychiatrist and political philosopher who may have had a brief but impactful existence. (Read more...)