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

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

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

According to ESPN, Jordan spent $275 million to majority own the Charlotte Hornets' NBA team. According to Forbes, the team is now worth more than $1.5 billion. (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...)

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...)