Merrill Lynch alum Racquel Oden has been appointed as the chair of the board of trustees for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). She is the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s…
Don Peebles is the founder and CEO of The Peebles Corporation, one of the largest Black-owned development corporations in the United States. He leveraged his position as a real estate sales agent and appraiser at…
Adebayo Ogunlesi, the chairman and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), is leading the firm’s $12.5 billion acquisition by investment behemoth BlackRock. The agreement involves a payment of $3 billion in cash and approximately 12…
At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, Meredith Gourdine was a few weeks shy of 23 when he won silver for the long jump. He was just an inch and half off the gold medalist’s…
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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