Major League Baseball (MLB) has decided to incorporate the statistics of the Negro Leagues into its official record books. The statistics of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues ballplayers from 1920-1948 across seven different Negro Leagues…
At the age of two, E’leese Shelton was already teaching herself on a LeapFrog tablet, an educational entertainment and electronics platform that provides educational content for children from infancy through grade school. She learned the…
Despite having identical resumes, a study conducted in 2023 found that ethnic minorities received 57.4% fewer positive responses compared to applicants with English-sounding names. Another study revealed that applicants with distinctively black names applying to…
Historically, the sporting arena was among the first and most high-profile spaces to accept African-Americans on relative terms of equality. Sports has had a unique role within American culture, driving social and political change. Sporting…
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has named a new building after its first Black manager, Dorothy Vaughan. Building 12 was named the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo” in honor…
Track and field star Allyson Felix has received a $20 million grant from Melinda French Gates to support Black maternal health organizations. The donation is a part of a broader $1 billion commitment to support…
The Essence Festival of Culture recently held at the Caesars Superdome generated a windfall of over $300 million for New Orleans, according to the city’s mayor. The festival, which celebrates African American culture, blends music…
Ghanaian doctor Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has made history, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins University’s neurosurgery program. She pursued her clinical interests in neurosurgery, neurotrauma and neurosurgical capacity building in low-and-middle-income countries.…
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