Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State to the United States of America, not only made history but further distinguished himself by occupying the highest ranking position in the U.S. military. (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...)

The United States Mint announced a series of coins commemorating American women who are pioneers. Maya Angelou is the first black woman to appear on a coin. (Read more...)

Kenneth C. Frazier is the first African American President of Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company in the Fortune 500 - America's 500 largest companies, by revenue. (Read more...)

Avant made things happen for men and women of colour in the music and film industry, in sports, in business and in politics. (Read more...)

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

Joséphine Baker joined Marie Curie, Genevieve de Gaulle, Germaine Tillion, Sophie Berthelot and Simone Veil, to become the sixth woman to be inducted into France's Panthéon. (Read more...)

Before Poitier, the majority of roles for Black Americans were restricted to servants. He stretched beyond Hollywood's stringent boundaries to deny any role that had to portray racial stereotypes. (Read more...)

Shondaland production has raised pertinent questions on Queen Charlotte's ancestry as she is portrayed as a black Queen of England in the Netflix series Bridgerton. (Read more...)