Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Black Greek letter sorority, is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle of St. Louis, Mo. The sorority gradually branched ...

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A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

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When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified ...

Inspired by the real-life Dozier School for Boys, the film uses an unusual first-person POV “sentient perspective” to tell ...

Since then, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has become the largest selling African-American owned spirit brand in history.

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As a student at the University of Ibadan, Aig-Imoukhuede had also deployed his creative rebellion to counter what he perceived to be racial abuse — even if subtle.

Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition - quite ...