Thomas Allen Moorehead, born on April 21, 1944, in Monroe, Louisiana, is a pioneering entrepreneur, philanthropist, and leader in the luxury automobile industry. Raised by his mother, Minnie Mae Thomas, he is the eldest of five siblings. Moorehead’s early life in the segregated South shaped his ambition and resilience, traits that would guide his remarkable journey from humble beginnings to […]

Tyre Deandre Nichols was a 29-year-old African American man who died on January 10, 2023, after being severely beaten by five Black officers from the Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION unit. The incident occurred three days earlier on January 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee, and became a significant moment in the ongoing national conversation about police violence against unarmed Black individuals. […]

Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old African American woman was shot and killed in her home in Woodside Township by Sean Grayson, a white deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, Sangamon County, Illinois on July 6, 2024. The killing contributed to the ongoing issue of unarmed African Americans being killed by the police. Massey was born on February 12, 1988. Much […]

James Townsend was an English Whig politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1772 to 1773. He also served as a member of Parliament. Townsend is thought to be the first Lord Mayor and first member of Parliament with Black African ancestry. Townsend’s birthdate was not recorded but he was baptized as a child on February 8, 1737. […]

King Ezana of Axum, the monarch of the Kingdom of Aksum (Now Ethiopia) from 320’s-360 CE, was credited with embracing Christianity and making it the official state religion. With that decision, Aksum/ Ethiopia became the oldest continuously Christian state in the world. Ezana’s birth date and early life are unknown. His parents, however, were Ella Amida (King Ousanas), who was […]

Francis Sumner, a scientist, professor, and Sergeant in the United States Army, 808th Pioneers in World War I, was the first Black American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology in 1920, graduating from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. By 1928, Sumner had joined the faculty and served as chair of the psychology department at Howard University in Washington, DC, where […]

Anthony William Hall, Jr., a distinguished former national president of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the Boulé, serving from 1996 to 1998, and a licensed commercial-rated pilot, was born on September 16, 1944, in Houston, Texas, to Anthony William Hall, Sr. and Quintana Wilson Hall Alliniece, a mathematics teacher. His education began in the racially segregated Sunnyside Elementary School and William […]

Wilbur Clarence Gordon was a distinguished physician and real estate developer, born in Ironton, Ohio, on May 9, 1879. He was the son of John Calvin Gordon, originally from Virginia, and Arabelle Finley, who hailed from Ironton. In 1903, Gordon earned a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, […]

Legendary CBS Sports anchor, commentator, and gifted storyteller Greg Gumbel was born on May 3, 1946, in New Orleans to Richard Dunbar Gumbel Jr., a probate court judge, and Rhea Alice LeCesne Gumbel. He grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where he played baseball as a child. In 1963, Gumbel graduated from De La Salle Institute and […]

Pharoah Narmer was the Egyptian monarch credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 BCE and thus creating the beginning of the powerful Egyptian state and sophisticated civilization. Narmer’s birth date and earlier life are unknown. Many Egyptologists scholars debate whether Narmer and Pharoah Menes were the same person. Upper Egypt, originally under Narmer, was urbanized along the Nile […]