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At 26, self-taught developer Yacine Oualid is Algeria’s youngest minister
Yacine Oualid is Algeria’s Minister of Startups, a newly-created ministry under the new government. He was appointed on January 02, 2020 at the age of 26, making him the youngest minister...
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Sierra Leone overturns law barring pregnant girls from going to school
Sierra Leone’s Education Minister David Moinina Sengeh has announced that a 2010 decision of government barring pregnant girls from going to school has been overturned. The girls were also prevented...
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Meet the first black women to be commissioned as naval officers in U.S
Lt. Harriet Ida Pickens and Ens. Frances Wills became the first African American women to be commissioned as naval officers known as WAVES, an acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service...
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Remembering Rev. Joseph Lowery, the ‘Dean’ of the Civil Rights Movement
Reverend Dr Echols Joseph Lowery co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Rev. Martin Luther King. Referred to as the “Dean” of the Civil Rights Movement, Lowery’s...
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Emily Perez: first female African-American officer to die in combat at 23
Emily Perez was the first black woman to achieve the rank of Cadet Command Sergeant Major in the history of the United States Military Academy. Upon her graduation from the academy in 2005, she was commissioned...
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At 24, Elizabeth Montague became the New Yorker’s first black female cartoonist
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, we are still in Women’s History Month and women’s efforts are, therefore, worth lauding. At 24, Elizabeth Montague made history in the pages of one of America’s...
