History

A young African-American woman from New York, age 18, has made history by becoming the state’s youngest Black woman to receive a private pilot certification. Ariel Messam recently obtained her …

The full US Senate voted 53-47 in favor of confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court on Thursday. Jackson, who makes history as the first Black woman …

Sharon Bowen was recently named Chairwoman of the New York Stock Exchange. Bowen is the first African-American woman to lead the NYSE in its 229-year history! (May 17, 1792) She …

Dr. Valerie Thomas, a graduate of Morgan State University. The NASA physicist invented the illusion transmitter, the first mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors …

It was day one of New Operator Training School, or NOTS, a 10-week proving ground for selectees to the San Juan Division’s SWAT team, which is among the busiest of …