Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut ... When he finally saw the view from 62 miles above Earth ...
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The Richest Black People in the World
To recognize Black Entrepreneurs Day and help you feel motivated, check out the list of the richest Black people in the world ... The Barbados native makes her first appearance on Forbes ...
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First black man to train as NASA astronaut will finally go to space
Ed Dwight was the first Black man to train to be a NASA astronaut in ... There he will experience weightlessness and be able to view Earth's curvature before heading back home.
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A renowned CT playwright will tell the story of…
She lived through World War I, the race riots and 1918 ... Ramsey is writing a play about Bouchet, the first Black person to earn a Ph.D. in the United States. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant ...
Memorial service honors first Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified from mass graves
On Tuesday, six years after Tulsa’s Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) reopened the city’s investigation into a search for mass graves of ...
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History: First Black man to reach colonel status in the army was from Kentucky
"His long and distinguished career as a commissioned officer in the United States Army made him a popular figure of his time ...
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These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
Black women notch historic Senate wins; first transgender person elected to House
becomes the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate. Alsobrooks, a Democrat and former ...
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First ever black hole image released
The first ever picture ... first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and has been ...
How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...
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New Haven rejected plans for the nation’s first Black college almost 200 years ago. Today, the city is weighing an apology
New Haven city officials are considering issuing an apology for rejecting what would have been the nation’s first Black ...
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‘Black Man on Wall Street’
world travels and surviving the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York. Penn recounts his wild ride with honesty, humor and poignancy in “Diary of a Black Man on Wall Street: From ...