CULTURE

The gospel singer’s spontaneous action led the orator to go off script during his 1963 March on Washington address. RACHEL

Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first physicians to perform open-heart surgery in the United States and founded a

In February 1945, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was established to deliver mail to American troops, government personnel, and

Born on December 24, 1870 to formerly enslaved parents in St. Simons, Georgia, Robert Sengstacke Abbott attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and then went on to

Mary Edmonia Lewis was born in Greenbush, New York in 1844 to an African American father and Native American (Chippewa)

In Henrietta Lacks’s centennial year, researchers must do more to ensure that human cells cannot be taken without consent. That

Elijah McCoy was a 19th century African American inventor best known for inventing lubrication devices used to make train travel

Pauli’s Story Born Anna Pauline Murray, Pauli chose the gender non-specific Pauli.  A jurist and activist who contributed some of the