Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman to have her likeness depicted in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected its first African American presiding bishop, who will be succeeding ...

In Springfield on Saturday evening, the African American Female Professors Award Association held their second annual University and College Presidents Ball at the Sheraton Hotel.

Jacksonville – Chef Nickey and Chef Vernetta are two African American women making an imprint on the Jacksonville culinary scene with their distinctive flavors. Chef Nickey is a pastry chef who ...

February 6, 2025 / 5:42 PM MST / CBS Colorado A Highlands Ranch teacher is getting ready to crack open a textbook and teach Advanced Placement African American Studies for the first time.

Cecelia Robinson is the first fully tenured African American Professor at William Jewell and she called the progress being made by renaming the room after Burgette, “wonderful.” “We can look ...

In June 1899 Beverly was hired as the district's first African-American teacher at Congress Elementary School. She left there in 1902 to get married and died at the age of 30 in 1904.