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Remembering Mary Eliza Mahoney; first Black nurse in the U.S.
Mary Eliza Mahoney became America’s first Black graduate nurse on August 1, 1879. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on May 7, 1845, Mahoney’s parents were part of the freed southern blacks...
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Vanessa Bryant sues helicopter operator over death of Kobe
Vanessa Bryant has sued the owner of the company that operated the helicopter that crashed last month, killing her husband and daughter. Kobe Bryant’s death shook the world to its core. Bryant,...
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Rising Tide Africa; the all-female angel group leading Africa’s female entrepreneurship drive
Yemi Keri and Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien are co-founders of Rising Tide Africa – a unique, and trans-border women-oriented investment program. It is funded by private investors, who believe in bringing...
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Meet the Nigerian woman behind The Shade Room, Instagram’s third most actively-engaged account
Angelica Nwandu is the CEO and founder of The Shade Room (TSR), an Instagram-based media company. Started in 2014, TSR is Instagram’s third most actively-engaged account with 17.7 million followers,...
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Meet Norwell Roberts; first black police officer in London
“They will remember the first policeman; the second or the third they will forget, but the first is always something special,” said Norwell Roberts. Roberts defied unbridled prejudice and racism...
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Remembering the black liberators who fought and freed the Dutch from the marauding Nazis
Colonel James Baldwin, in the company of the 784th Tank Battalion, landed in Holland in 1945. The 784th Tank Battalion was a segregated one and on a mission to fight Nazis and help free the Dutch from...
