by Otis Alexander | Jul 7, 2022 | African American History, People
Clarice Evone Salone Phelps, a nuclear chemist was part of the research team responsible for the discovery of a new element, 117 also known as tennessine, was born in 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and reared in the Edgehill Housing Projects in Nashville, Tennessee,...
by Otis Alexander | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yamiche Léone Alcindor Cline has quickly become one of the most prominent African American journalists in the nation. Of Haïtien heritage, Alcindor was born in Miami, Florida, on November 1, 1986. Her father and mother came from...
by Nelson Hall | Dec 31, 2021 | African American History, People
Physician, concert pianist, and conductor, Adele Darlene Allen was born March 19, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, to Oscar Clement Allen, a physician from Baltimore, Maryland, and Hattie Lawson Allen, a registered nurse, high school administrator, author from Danville,...
by Otis Alexander | Dec 5, 2021 | African American History, People
Sylvia Yvonne Cyrus, Executive Director of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), was born on December 16, 1955, in Plainfield, New Jersey, to John Marvin Cyrus, Sr. from Marion, Virginia, an orphan who achieved an eighth-grade...
by NielsenEuellA. | Jul 17, 2021 | African American History, People
Lulu Merle Johnson was pioneer in education and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the state of Iowa. Born on September 14, 1907 in Gravity, Iowa to Jeanette (Burton) and Richard Johnson, her mother was the daughter of freed slaves, and her father,...
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