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UNITED STATES – AUGUST 02: White Hall at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama Photo: Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge (Getty Images) The first Black student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Robinson Taylor was the first accredited Black architect in the United States. After graduation, he went to work at Tuskegee Institute, where he designed 25 campus buildings, […]
*This is the second blog in a two part blog series of the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. Read part one.* High-priority projects, such as the XB-35 all-wing bomber, distracted Northrop’s engineering team and delayed the P-61 Black Widow’s combat debut until 1944. The first P-61A sent overseas arrived in England in March but not for combat. […]
Courtesy of Designer Brands Inc. Updated March 20, 2023 DSW parent company Designer Brands Inc. and Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design (PLC) cut the ribbon to their brand new JEMS by Pensole factory in in Somersworth, N.H. The event marked the opening of the first Black-owned footwear factory in the United States. According […]
WEAVERVILLE, N.C. — While NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch four people to the International Space Station on Monday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, a North Carolina company has done its part for the Crew-6 mission. There’s one crucial thing every launch needs before leaving the planet — a mission patch. The coaster-sized piece of […]
WEAVERVILLE, N.C. — While NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch four people to the International Space Station on Monday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, a North Carolina company has done its part for the Crew-6 mission. There’s one crucial thing every launch needs before leaving the planet — a mission patch. The coaster-sized piece of […]
CNN — In an ordinary Boston courtroom in April 2015, lawyers and activists at the first hearing of a challenge to race-based admissions practices at Harvard knew they would see each other again, eventually at the US Supreme Court.
After giving birth to her third child in May 2020, Anjanet Thomas knew something was wrong. She told her doctor she felt unusually swollen but was dismissed and sent home. Her symptoms worsened after she left the hospital. But Thomas went back later that day and was diagnosed with postpartum preeclampsia — a rare condition […]
The documentary about the journalists who work at Khabar Lahariya made the rounds of the 2021 festival circuit, collecting accolades as it went. On Sunday March 27, its directors — Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh — and protagonists will find out if they get arguably the most prestigious award of them all: the Oscar for […]
In efforts to celebrate Black History Month, Designer Brands Inc. announced an investment of $2 million in the first Black-owned footwear factory in the United States – JEMS by Pensole – to produce shoes designed by PLC graduate students. Designer Brands is the parent of shoe retailer DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, and the shoes will […]
During the pandemic in early 2020, Rachel Stewart went to a Phoenix, Ariz., grocery store to get food for her family. She was met with empty shelves and limited options. “I walked into the stores with nothing there,” Rachel tells Yahoo Life, adding, “That moment of scarcity, it changes you.” Rachel and her husband James […]