From activists to entertainers to record-breaking athletes to a postal worker, we are shining a spotlight on the contributions of influential African Americans ... in her most famous autobiography ...

DELMARVA. – African Americans have evolved in our country. Tuskegee University was awarded an Air Corps contract to help train black military pilots. This group was eventually called ‘The ...

Celebrating Black History in February and all year long is fundamental, writes. Black History is American History.

Often called the Beyoncé of the 1920s, Josephine Baker lived a dozen lives in her time on earth. The African American singer ...

Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

Eric Arthur had sold his condom and lubricant manufacturing business and was living large aboard a 48-foot catamaran when his ...

Founded in 1921, it is the oldest and first African American country club in the United States. The club's history has many ties to several famous African Americans and their fight for equality during ...

Newton became a command pilot with more than 4,000 hours in the air. He flew 269 combat missions during the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War and later became the first African American pilot to ...

She was called “Brave Bessie” or “Queen Bess.” Decades after her death, aviators still remembered her name. Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman in world history to earn a pilot’s ...

“When I entered the plane, I looked into the cockpit there and there were two African American pilots. One was the co-pilot, and one was the pilot. But not only that, the thing that started ...

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