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Allen Counter was a Harvard University professor and neurologist who achieved much in his career on his own. He also…
Dr. Edith Irby Jones is best known as the first Black student admitted to the University of Arkansas Medical School.…
Professor Joseph Roye Applegate is best known as the first Black faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A…
Stacey Abrams, currently a representative in the Georgia Statehouse and House Minority Leader, has accomplished some great career achievements already.…
Ida B. Wells is most known for her crusade against the lynching of Black Americans that she launched in the…
Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black…
Steve Hightower, the current CEO and founder of Hightowers Petroleum of Ohio, worked as a janitor cleaning floors and toilets…
Diane Abbott made history in 1987 by becoming the first Black member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Abbott…
The sport of Polo has long had an image of being a sport for the rich, white elite, not something…
David Dinkins was New York City’s first and only Black mayor to date. Today, Dinkins turns 90 and the borough…
Althea Gibson is best known as a pioneering tennis player who was the first Black player to win a Grand…
Aramis Ayala was elected Florida’s first Black state attorney last November, and has been making headlines this year with her…
