Director Ava DuVernay has only made four movies, but she’s already broken barriers in the film industry. The one-time film publicist harbored a desire to make her own movies, and finally did with the breakout success of her first film, I Will Follow, made independently on a limited budget. When she was faced with distribution […]
An early interest in books and writing essays as punishment worked oddly in Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ favor. As national correspondent at The Atlantic, he writes about culture, politics and social issues. His work can also be found in The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, O Magazine and other notable publications. The Baltimore, Maryland native is the […]
Words can be a powerful tool for change. Here are 10 speeches by African-Americans whose words impacted everyone who heard them. President Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Address Many believed we would never see a Black President, so on January 20, 2009 when Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, […]
Kamala Harris has already accomplished some impressive ‘firsts.’ She’s the first female, the first African-American and the first Asian-American to become Attorney General of California, a post she was elected to in 2010 and reelected to last year. Harris, 50, whose mother is Tamil Indian and whose father is Jamaican-American, is a graduate of Howard University […]
After 179 years since it was first discovered, Shreveport has its first black female Mayor. Ollie Tyler was named the city’s 48th Mayor in December 2014 after spending 43 years in education. “I think for those who come behind me as African Americans, it does give them hope, and it does give them inspiration that this is […]
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech is etched into the American consciousness because of its call for a truly color-blind society. While that utopian sensibility may fall short of reality, the Dream Defenders are doing their best to bring us closer to that ideal. The group began in Florida in […]
Meet Hakeem Jeffries, the former corporate lawyer at CBS and Viacom turned politician. The Crown Heights, Brooklyn native was the Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York’s 8th congressional district in Brooklyn and Queens. He received his bachelor’s in political science from Binghamton University with honors and graduated from New York University School of Law as […]
Thousands of African-American inventors have developed various inventions over the years that have greatly impacted culture. However, today we are highlighting only 10 African-American inventors who have “shifted” the fields of science, medicine and technology. Dr. Patricia E. Bath She was the first African-American female doctor to receive a patent in medicine for her invention […]
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 […]
