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…