First-generation college student/earned undergraduate degree — (1968) — Therapeutic Recreation — Tennessee State University. 3. First African American to serve ...

In 1969, Black educators and students at Kent State University proposed the month of February to be celebrated as Black History Month. The first ever celebration took place at Kent State University a ...

After the release of the epic war romance film “Gone With the Wind” in 1939, Hattie McDaniel — the daughter of two former slaves — was delighted with the reaction to her role as the enslaved housemaid ...

When the city of Las Vegas announced several years ago plans for an African American museum in the Historic Westside, Gwen Walker cried for three weeks. “When I heard this about the ‘world-class ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in ...