by Simone Rixey | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, civil rights activist, served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women and founded the National Council of Negro Women. A child of former slaves, McLeod Bethune graduated from the Scotia Seminary for Girls in...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 11, 2018 | Culture
Ava DuVernay is an American film producer, screenwriter, film marketer, film distributor and award winning film director. DuVernay is the first African America female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the first African American female director to...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 9, 2018 | Culture
Marjorie Joyner was an American businesswoman and the first African American woman to graduate from A.B. Molar Beauty School in Chicago. At A.B. Molar, Joyner met Madame C.J. Walker, the African American beauty entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 8, 2018 | Culture
Misty Copeland is an American ballet dancer and the first African-American ballet dancer to be promoted to principal dancer in the history of the American Ballet Theatre. At the age of 15, Copeland was already receiving professional offers. Glamour Magazine’s 2015...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 7, 2018 | Culture
Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, award-winning author and poet, best known for her 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The memoir made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African American woman. A less known first, Angelou was...
