Who is Wally Amos? In 1967, he left the famous William Morris Agency in New York to move to Los Angeles to start his management...

It's election season in Chicago, and every candidate for Mayor is black, but one. This was the complete opposite in 1983, when Harold Washington,...

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first African-American woman and federal public defender to sit on the supreme court. Jackson will replace Associate Justice Stephen...

Introduction Hip-hop has become among the most well-known and significant musical genres worldwide, but it wasn't always that way. Hip-hop was largely an underground movement...

In 1956, Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick later led the United Nations’ Human Rights Division. She attended Harvard in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down, joining only a handful of women and the only black woman a one year before Ruth Bader Ginsburg started as a first-year student at the school.