Located at 2213 Lake Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is an important Black heritage site in Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1906 by the Nebraska Telephone Company, the neighborhood around the building included people of varying socioeconomic backgrounds, including African Americans, European immigrants, white Americans, and Eastern European Jews. The Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913 obliterated […]

Zoë Saldaña is an accomplished actress and dancer known for her roles in four of the six highest-grossing films produced by Hollywood. Born Zoë Yadira Saldaña Nazario on June 19, 1978, in Passaic, New Jersey, she is the daughter of Aridio Saldaña from the Dominican Republic and Asalia Nazario from Puerto Rico. Zoë has two sisters, Cisely and Mariel Saldaña […]

Zoë Saldaña is an accomplished actress and dancer known for her roles in four of the six highest-grossing films produced by Hollywood. Born Zoë Yadira Saldaña Nazario on June 19, 1978, in Passaic, New Jersey, she is the daughter of Aridio Saldaña from the Dominican Republic and Asalia Nazario from Puerto Rico. Zoë has two sisters, Cisely and Mariel Saldaña […]

Located at 2213 Lake Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is an important Black heritage site in Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1906 by the Nebraska Telephone Company, the neighborhood around the building included people of varying socioeconomic backgrounds, including African Americans, European immigrants, white Americans, and eastern European Jews. The Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913 obliterated […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]