black_history_makers

He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and...

On November 20, 2009 when Oprah Winfrey announced that she was ending her award-winning talk show, media outlets discussed who...

Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold?Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst...

Monte?Irvin will leave the pioneer status to Jackie Robinson, the first African-American major leaguer. Yet those who admired Irvin and...

Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress known for her plaintive signature song “Stormy Weather” and for her triumph...

The late Percy Ellis Sutton, who joined the ages last December, was no stranger to these pages or website.? In...

Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum...

Anybody who thinks that the medical establishment?s secret exploitation of African-Americans in the name of science ended with the notorious...

Georgia Congressman John?Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and remembered the incident 45 years...