Renowned author Langston Hughes once asked ‘What happens to a dream deferred?’ For most, that early desire is swallowed up by the realities of life and largely dismissed, because some put an expiration date on dreams. But Dr. Karen Morris Priester is living proof that dreams can be achieved despite any circumstance. While history has […]
According to Dictionary.com, Urology is defined as “the scientific, clinical, and especially surgical aspects of the study of the urine and the genitourinary tract in health and disease.” Now if there was a definition for who’d you want helping you if said area gave you any issues, that’d be Dr. Charles Modlin. Modlin is an […]
Dr. Jennifer Ellis is in a very exclusive sorority. She is one of only five board-certified, Black female cardiothoracic surgeons in the U.S. The Washington, D.C. native was influenced to become a doctor partly by her psychiatrist father, who encouraged his children’s ambitions in any arena, but also by a childhood babysitter with a congenital […]
When the parents of two Nigerian immigrants gave birth to a baby boy in 1980, we’re betting they didn’t realize that their son’s name and an umbrella-shaped marine animal would almost be synonymous. Fast forward to John Dabiri‘s summer fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, and his love for Aeronautics and growing interest in bio mechanics and it’s easy to see […]
In the month of February we are spotlighting one individual per day in the fields of Science, Medicine, Entertainment, Politics, Media, Education and Social Justice who are shaping, impacting and “shifting” Black History today. Check out the Shifting Society presented by Allstate website everyday for information about “shifters” from the past and present through informative […]
Charles Alfred “Chief” Anderson will be honored this week in his hometown of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in recognition of his commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service. Anderson was a pioneering Black aviator who became the lead trainer for the Tuskegee Airmen. As we detailed in our Little Known Black History Fact, Anderson flew […]
02/05/14- Reverend Al Sharpton encourages people to look beyond the typical names celebrated during Black History Month. Instead, he asks people to dig deeper and to teach friends and family about the unsung black history makers.
Man, “Saturday Night Live” is really getting in touch with its “blackness.” As the world knows, February is Black History Month and the show took time to celebrate with a skit featuring its three black castmembers. The scene was a high school presentation the subject. It’s a mostly white classroom, but Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson, […]
