by Fearn-BanksKathleen | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Bernard J. Tyson was a leading figure within the field of healthcare and a notable African American businessman. Tyson was the chairman of the board and CEO of Kaiser Permanente. With 175,000 employees, including 18,000 physicians, and over ten million members in...
by CotkinGeorge | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
William H. Grier was a psychiatrist who published the groundbreaking book, Black Rage, along with fellow psychiatrist Price M. Cobbs in 1968. Published in the aftermath of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the subsequent outburst of race riots,...
by CotkinGeorge | Mar 19, 2016 | Global African History, Groups & Organizations
Al-Shabaab fighters disengage and lay down arms, September 2012 “Image Ownership: AMISOM Public Information” Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as Al-Shabaab (meaning youth), is a clan-based jihadist terrorist group in East Africa....
by PharrGwendolyn | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Mellody Hobson is the co-CEO of Ariel Investments (AI), which was founded in 1983 by John W. Rogers Jr. With the continued growth of the African American middle class, the number of Black investors has risen. Ariel Investments is one of the nation’s few...
by RafaelVicente | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
The theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates, known for his work in supersymmetry, string theory, superconformal algebra, Adinkra symbols, and bihermitian manifolds, was born on December 15, 1950, in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Gates has three siblings: two younger...
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