Mary Ellen Pleasant: Entrepreneur and Activist
Mary Ellen Pleasant’s exact origins are fuzzy. She may have begun her life as a slave in 1810s Georgia, but
Read MoreMary Ellen Pleasant’s exact origins are fuzzy. She may have begun her life as a slave in 1810s Georgia, but
Read MoreMatthew Henson was born in Maryland just after the Civil War and had a hard-luck childhood. Both of his parents died
Read MoreMeet LaMailede “Assata” Moore, a former educator and high school principal who has launched the Black Math Genius (BMG) program to address
Read MoreThe battles over critical race theory and Southern heritage are really about a narrow, exclusionary reading of our past. As
Read MoreIn 1851, a concert soprano named Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield embarked on a national tour that upended America’s music scene. In antebellum America,
Read More“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.” By Christian Spencer It was at the
Read MorePhotographer Ron Tarver grew up in Fort Gibson, a small town in Oklahoma where horses, cattle and Wrangler jeans were embedded into
Read MoreClarissa Donnelly-DeRoven On June 19, Kiya wears a yellow tutu, polka dot shorts and a faux yellow flower clipped into her ponytail. The 8-year-old shuffles back and
Read MoreBefore the Tulsa Race Massacre, the city’s African American district thrived as a community of business leaders and visionaries. ALEXIS
Read Moreby Savoystaff NASA celebrated the agency’s first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson, with a ceremony to formally name the agency’s headquarters building
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