Raven Symone was just 4 years old when she first appeared on The Cosby Show in 1989, and her addition to the show made it even more successful than it...
Lori Harvey may be mostly known as the daughter of Steve and Marjorie Harvey and the socialite who dates A-list celebrities, but she is also a young a...
Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe will be the first Black woman to travel on a commercial flight to space with Blue Origin, the private spacefli...
Monica Calhoun, a successful Black American film and television actress, is now 51 years old. She has gained fame through her remarkable performances...
Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943 while the South was still strictly segregated, tennis player Arthur Ashe went on to become the first, and so far t...
Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924. She later became the first African-American woman elected to the United States...
For hundreds of years, doctors and researchers assumed that skin conditions like jaundice, warts, measles, and chickenpox produced the same symptoms f...
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the first Black female writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for a work of fiction....
Carol Moseley Braun was born on August 16, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. From an early age she showed a great interest in political and social issues. T...