Charles Carl Teamer, Sr., was born to B.T. Teamer and Mary Teamer on May 20, 1933, in Shelby, North Carolina. In 1954, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from HBCU Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University, in Atlanta, Georgia. During his time at Clark, he was initiated into the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Two years later, in […]

K.C. Jones was an American basketball coach for the National Basketball League (NBA). Jones was born on May 25, 1932, to K.C. Jones Sr and Eula Jones in Taylor, Texas. Jones’ parents divorced when he was nine years old and he moved to San Francisco, California where he attended Commerce High School. After high school, Jones attended the University of […]

Jayden Daniels is an American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Commanders. Daniels was born on December 18, 2000, to Javon Daniels and Regina Jackson in Fontana, California and raised in nearby San Bernardino. Daniels was introduced to football at the age of five where he played flag football and contact football by the age […]

Attorney Charles H. Calloway was born in Bradley County, Tennessee, on June 16, 1878. He graduated from the public school system in Bradley County and earned a Bachelor of Arts from HBCU Fisk University in Nashville in 1903. After graduation, he pursued legal studies at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis. Dean William S. Patte and William R. […]

Robert Vernon Franklin, Jr. was a retired Lucas County Common Pleas Court judge who presided over trials and hearings in over 25 counties throughout Ohio. He was born on January 6, 1926, in Toledo, Ohio, to Josephine Beard Franklin and Robert V. Franklin, Sr. As the youngest child, he had two sisters, Lucille Franklin Odom and Flora Mae Franklin Mudd, […]

Elbert Frank Cox, who perhaps most famous for exploring and expanding the Boole summation formula based on the work of the Danish mathematician and astronomer Niels Erik, was born in Evansville, Indiana, on December 5, 1895. His father, Johnson D. Cox, was principal and teacher at the segregated Third Avenue School, and his mother was Eugenia Talbot Cox. The Coxs […]

Glenn Dale Cunningham was the first African American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He was born in Jersey City on September 16, 1943, reared in Jersey City, and attended Henry Snyder High School. Years later in 2018 he was inducted into the school’s first group of Hall of Fame honorees. After high school Cunningham joined the Marines, serving during […]

The Honorable George W. Draper, the first African American to serve as Chief Judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, was born on August 5, 1953, in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Morehouse College, completing his bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1977, then received his Juris Doctorate from Howard University, an HBCU, in 1981. Judge Draper built […]

Thomas Bailey Shropshire, a Past Grand Sire Archon of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (The Boulé), was a transformative figure in the brewing industry. He played a critical role in establishing Miller Brewing Company as one of the top brewers in the world. Shropshire was born on October 15, 1925, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to William Shropshire, a railroad worker, […]

Huel Davis Perkins, a distinguished composer, pianist, professor, administrator, and orator, was born on December 27, 1924, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From 1943 to 1946, Perkins served in the U.S. Navy as a Musician First Class. After being honorably discharged, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge in 1947, where he became a member […]