CULTURE
Alice Ball: The Forgotten Black Woman Chemist Who Developed the First Effective Leprosy Treatment
In 1915, at just 23 years old, Alice Augusta Ball, a brilliant Black chemist from Seattle, developed the first effective...
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Harvard to Relinquish Photos of Enslaved Ancestors After Five-Year Legal Battle
Harvard University has agreed to give up some of the earliest known photos of enslaved people—daguerreotypes taken in 1850 by...
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Georgia Teen Works Burger King Shift in Graduation Medals, Raises $85K for College
While most high school seniors spend graduation night celebrating with family and friends, 18-year-old Mykale Baker did something different. Just...
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Aliyah Griffith Makes History as UNC’s First Black Ph.D. in Marine Science, Joining the Less Than 2% of Black Scholars in the Field
A Historic First at UNC Aliyah Griffith has made history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming...
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