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Meet Vinnette Carroll, the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway
Vinnette Justine Carroll’s professionalism in theatrical arts paved way for black professionals in the industry. She was Broadway’s first black woman director who brought African American-oriented...
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Long before Harriet Tubman, Josiah Henson helped free slaves
Josiah Henson helped free over a hundred slaves long before the Underground Railroad and established the first Laborers School for fugitive slaves. Henson was an author, abolitionist and minister whose...
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How George E. Johnson turned a $500 loan into a multi-million dollar cosmetics business
George Ellis Johnson Sr. founded the Johnson Products Company, which became the first black-owned corporation to be listed on the American Stock Exchange in 1971. Born in Mississippi on June 16, 1927,...
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Zoe Saldana, the Afro Latina who has starred in three of the highest-grossing movies of all time
Actress Zoe Saldana recently made history as the first and only woman of color to have starred in three movies grossing over $2 billion at the box office: Avatar (2009), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and...
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Barbara Ross-Lee: First female Black dean of a U.S. medical school
Barbara Ross-Lee, sister to Diana Ross, is a physician and the first female Black dean of a United States medical school. Growing up in inner-city Detroit, Ross-Lee and her sister Diana shared a liking...
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Slapped with gun, stabbed, SA’s Sizani Ngubane fought for rights of rural women
Sizani Ngubane is a veteran South African activist, who has dedicated her life to promoting gender equality and fought for women’s and indigenous rights. Ngubane went through a great deal of setbacks,...
