by Simone Rixey | Feb 18, 2018 | Culture
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist and regarded as the mother of the modern day civil rights movement in America. In 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This was the catalyst for a wave of...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture
Dr. Patricia Bath is an American inventor, ophthalmologist and academic who has been a blazer the trail for women and African Americans in her field. Bath is the first woman to have served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first women to have headed a...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 16, 2018 | Culture
Shonda Rhimes is an American television producer, screenwriter, creator and author best known for Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder. In 2007, Rhimes was named on of TIME magazine’s 100 People Who Help Shape the World. Rhimes has won the Directors...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 15, 2018 | Culture
Ursula Burns is an American business educative, currently serving the chairwoman of VEOM. Burns is also senior advisor to Teneo, and a board member of American Express Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Uber and many more. Burns became the first African American...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 13, 2018 | Culture
Coretta Scott King was a civil rights pioneer, author and wife to Martin Luther King Jr. Scott King was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movement as an advisor to our nation’s leaders and an advocate for her late husband’s causes. A little...
