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LaShyra Nolen is first-ever black woman class president of Harvard Medical School
Affectionately called ‘Lash’, LaShyra Nolen made history as the first black woman class president of Harvard Medical School (HMS). Yeah, the first-ever! Speaking to Teen Vogue, Nolen called...
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65 yrs after his murder, House passes Emmett Till bill to make lynching a federal crime
The United States Congress has passed a legislation to make lynching a federal crime. The anti-lynching legislation named after Emmett Till and introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush was passed Wednesday,...
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Jesse L. Brown, sharecropper’s son who became the first African-American Navy fighter pilot
Jesse Leroy Brown was a racial pioneer. The son of a sharecropper, Brown as a youngster working in Mississippi’s corn and cotton field, would declare whenever he saw an airplane overhead that he...
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Remembering Andrée Blouin; the dangerous woman who counseled six African leaders
“The death of my son politicized me as nothing else could,” Andrée Blouin recalled in her 1983 memoir, My Country, Africa. A mixed-race woman, Blouin watched her two-year-old son, René...
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‘I was upset’ – Judge under pressure to resign for using racial slurs on black employees
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has intensified its calls on a Louisiana District Court Judge Jesse LeBlanc to resign. The calls for LeBlanc who’s the Assumption...
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Trinidad’s Kalisa Villafana becomes first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at Florida University
Kalisa Villafana made history last August as the first black female graduate at Florida State University (FSU) to earn a doctoral degree in nuclear physics. Villafana is thus, only the 96th black woman...
