pioneers
The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office of the University of Maryland Medical System recently shared profiles of African American Health Pioneers in Maryland as part of Black History Month. Among the featured African American healthcare leaders who significantly impacted the Maryland community were Donald E. Wilson and Elijah B. Saunders. Donald E. Wilson was the […]
Annie Easley was known as a “human computer” for the work she did analyzing problems and making calculations by hand at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama, Easley was confronted by racial segregation in the Jim Crow South during her early education and throughout her life. In […]
People might not know that Phillis Wheatley was the first African American author of a published book of poetry in 1773. Or that Mary Fields was the first African American female mail carrier in 1895. Retired Penn State professor Anthony Mitchell highlighted the work of these women and other African American pioneers during his presentation […]
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Opportunities in the sciences of aviation and space were not always available to all people. A small few fought to be included and thus changed history. Black History Month exists because of pioneers similar to these who stood up to excel and achieve for those who […]
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Their work enabled potent Covid vaccines to be made in less than a year, averting tens of millions of deaths and helping the world recover from the worst pandemic in […]
The first Black women to pursue careers in the health and medical professions often overcame great odds to become practitioners aiming to provide quality care for their patients who were often African Americans and the indigent. Before the Civil War, Black women mainly served as informal, untrained medical caregivers whether working as domestics in the […]
Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for a parade of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she learned that white organizers wanted Black women to march at the back so as not to upset Southern delegates. Wells, who was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago […]
SEOUL — The long arc of South Korea’s postwar art history — and the country’s transformation in those 75 years — looms large at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, where Gana Art, a Seoul-based gallery, is showcasing two of the country’s pioneering artists. The South Korea of today is a far cry from . . .
In this article, celebrating Black History Month, I bring us back home to Montcalm County to explore the presence of Black pioneers in our county 150 years ago. The monument to Samuel and Henrietta Lett at their grave in the Bloomer Township Cemetery. — Submitted photo Initially, I thought . . .
From the deck of the Starship Enterprise, to the storied parquet of the NBA — Nichelle Nichols and Bill Russell changed how the world saw Black Americans. Nichols was the pathbreaking actress on Star Trek, at a time where very few Black women were key characters on TV. “Her position of a woman in power […]