William C. McNeill, M.D., was a distinguished educator and physician whose career was marked by dedicated service in both the academic and medical communities. Born in 1878 as one of ten children on a farm in North Carolina, McNeill moved to Washington, D.C., in 1897 to attend Howard Academy, the preparatory school for Howard University. He worked his way through […]

Benjamin Major, M.D., was a distinguished gynecologist, family planner, and humanitarian whose life and career left significant marks on both his profession and the broader community. A graduate of Fisk University, he graduated from Meharry Medical College at the young age of 21. Dr. Major went on to become the second Black physician in Northern California to be certified by […]

Theodore Adam Jones was born on November 14, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado, to Nellie Gant Jones and Adam Daniel Jones. Shortly after his birth, his father passed away, and he and his mother settled in Chicago, where he grew up on South Rhodes Avenue. Jones attended Douglas Elementary School, Doolittle Elementary School, and later, Wendell Phillips Junior and Senior High […]

Dr. David Johnson Dixson was born in 1892 in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Wesley S. Dixson, a merchant who was also the local postmaster, and Martha A. Johnson, a seamstress. Dixson was one of five children. Dixson was a graduate of Benedict College and Howard University. He practiced medicine in his hometown of Barnwell, South Carolina, for over 50 years. […]

Dwayne M. Murray was born in Franklin, Louisiana, to Damon and Elva Murray.  He is the Managing Member of the law firm, Murray & Murray, LLC, Attorneys at Law. From 2020 to 2022, Dwayne M. Murray served as Grand Sire Archon for Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. From 2007 to 2011, he served as the Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi […]

James E. Anderson, Sr. was an educator and civic leader. Born in Springfield, Missouri, Anderson experienced early adversity, losing his parents at a young age. He was raised by relatives in Chanute, Kansas, before moving to Wichita as a high school student. There, he graduated from Wichita East High School, laying the foundation for an exceptional career in education and […]

The Negro Family: The Case For National Action Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor March 1965 ________________________________________ Two hundred years ago, in 1765, nine assembled colonies first joined together to demand freedom from arbitrary power. For the first century we struggled to hold together the first continental union of democracy in the history of man. […]

Gilbert H. Bradley, Jr. was a pioneering politician who became the first African American mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was born on September 16, 1940, in Hodge, Louisiana, to Gilbert and Carrie Bradley. When he was three years old, his family moved to Inkster, Michigan. While much of Bradley’s early life remains undocumented, he attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, […]

Roscoe Dubois Draper, the last instructor of the Tuskegee Airmen, served during World War II and was a “triple-rated” Tuskegee Airmen Flight Instructor. He was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1919, to Edgar and Ethel Draper, the fourth of nine children. His siblings were Earl Draper, Cora Draper, Percy Draper, Marie Draper Pierce, Barbara Draper Newton, William Draper, […]

Malcolm-Jamal Warner was a talented actor, poet, musician, director, and producer, born on August 18, 1970, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was named after the civil rights activist Malcolm X and the jazz legend Ahmad Jamal. His father, Robert Warner Jr., worked in drug intervention programs and graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. After his parents’ divorce, his mother, […]