Alice Walker was born on Feb. 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker grew up poor being the youngest of 8 children. Growing up in the drastically split-up South, Walker defied numerous stereotypes, including...
John Rogers, more commonly known as John Legend, was born December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. He’s had a deep love for music and even took piano lessons at three years old. With age, his talent...
Marsha P. Johnson: One of the first well-known black gay and transgender rights activists, she fought heavily for gay rights and for transgender youth like herself.
The Marsha P. Johnson Insitute,...
Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to...
Marguerite Ann Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis Missouri. Maya and her older brother, Bailey were sent to live with their grandma in Arkansas when they were...
Robyn Fenty, also known as Rihanna, was born Feb. 20, 1988, in Saint Micheal, Barbados. Rihanna dropped out of school and moved to the United States at the young age of 16 to jump-start her singing career....
Stokely Carmichael, a prominent civil rights organizer, first led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then became the honorary prime minister of the Black Panthers, and lastly leader...
Josephine Baker: The first French-American war hero and black woman to be inducted into Paris mausoleum for revered figures.
As a civil rights activist, she was the only woman to speak at the 1963...
CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Mark Zuckerberg, has started to take the company in a different direction, starting with a brand new form of the social media platform called the Metaverse. The...
Sno-Isle culinary-arts applications for juniors and seniors will open on Jan. 14, 2021 for the next school year. Through the program, students will master food preparation and serving as well as learn...
Everyone loves and looks forward to our winter holidays, bringing family and friends together. We put an immense amount of focus around Christmas, and the idea of celebrating on Dec. 25. Though, there...
