My husband and I are "foodies." We love to try various cuisines, from hidden mama and papa dives to food trucks and even fine...

Introduction The significance of Tressie Souders in black history is hard to understate. She diligently navigated the landscape of a predominantly white and male-centric Hollywood,...

"I often find myself the only black woman or the only woman in a room all the time. I mean, all the time,” she...

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.

Charles Henry Turner stands among the earliest African Americans to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1892, he became the first...