by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jan 27, 2023 | African American History, People
Robert Lee Satcher Jr., a specialist in child and adult bone cancer, a chemical engineer, and astronaut was born on September 22, 1965, in Hampton, Virginia, to Robert Lee Satcher, from Coffee County, Alabama, and the president of Saint Paul’s College in...
by | May 10, 2022 | African American History, People
Kenneth Olden, a cell biologist, biochemist, and cancer researcher, is the founding dean at the School of Public Health of City University New York (CUNY). Born in 1938 in Parrottsville, Tennessee, Olden grew up in a rural community with his parents Matt and Augusta...
by StanleyFreeman | Aug 19, 2021 | African American History, People
Dr. Thomas LaVeist is a lead researcher in studies about the racial disparities that influence or impact an individual’s health outcome at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine where he is also its first African American dean. Dr. LaVeist has...
by FranzAlyssa | Oct 21, 2018 | African American History, People
Medical researcher John Wallace was born March 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Howard University in 1947 with an honors bachelors in zoology. Originally, he was going to enroll at a medical student at Meharry Medical College. However, after spending a...
by WilsonCynthia | Mar 11, 2018 | African American History, People
May Edward Chinn is renowned for her work in medical research. In 1926 she became the first African American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now NYU School of Medicine). She was born on April 15, 1896 to William Lafayette Chinn and Lulu Ann...
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