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 Private Pilot's license, proudly stating that she is the youngest black...
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 and the first public defender to serve on the highest US court, will replace Justice...
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 was previously a director at the Intercontinental Exchange and an equitypartner at Latham...
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 and rays of light. Without Thomas invention, there wouldn’t be an MRI...
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 the FBI’s 56 field office teams. Tai and four other special agents would spend the day—and the next nine...
Photo Courtesy of Steve Ueckert / AP fileOn November 14, 1960, Lucille Bridges escorted her then-6-year-old daughter Ruby to William Frantz Elementary School as she became the first Black student to attend the previously segregated school in New Orleans. The actions...
Ella Jones became the first African-American and first woman elected mayor in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday, nearly 6 years after the city erupted in protests after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager. Jones secured her historic...
The eight-part series will explore Franklin’s musical genius and incomparable career, and the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world.
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Next month, the docu-series 'Who Killed Malcolm X?' is coming to Netflix. Malcolm X's home was firebombed one week before he was murdered, yet only two cops assigned to security detail on that fateful evening at the Audubon. Who actually killed him? Who knew it was...
The documentary film "THE RINGLEADER: THE CASE OF THE BLING RING", an HBO Original, is directed by...
The documentary film "THE RINGLEADER: THE CASE OF THE BLING RING", an HBO Original, is directed by...
In the days following the announcements that several popular daytime talk shows, such as "The...
This fall, BIA, a multiplatinum artist born in Boston and based in Los Angeles, will be embarking...
Crunchyroll, the loved anime streaming platform, has revealed its highly anticipated Fall...
The documentary film "THE RINGLEADER: THE CASE OF THE BLING RING", an HBO Original, is directed by...