Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at women in business, education, government and sports who have broken through the glass ceiling and become the first in their respective positions in the United States. 1739 - ...

The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York. The viewing audience watches the New York Rangers battle the Montreal Canadiens at ...

In 1940, he became the first Black American to earn a doctorate ... Gibson retired in 1958 but pursued another sport: golf.

In 1940, he became the first Black American to earn a doctorate ... Gibson retired in 1958 but pursued another sport: golf.

When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

If daring and determined were a person, they might resemble the spirit of Black travel history maker Bessie Stringfield. In ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known ...

The New World Symphony launched “I Dream a World” in 2022 serves also as a platform to encourage dialogue about the enduring ...