Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too few people have heard of her. Maggie Lena Walker was the first Black woman in the nation to organize and run a bank. And she did it in the segregated South in the former capital of the Confederacy, […]

It’s not an understatement to describe the past year’s events as historical, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman, and a historically Black university graduate, and Georgia sends its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these realities were possible through the tireless organizing efforts of […]

No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in February 1926. Woodson was the second black American to receive a Ph.D. in history from Harvard—following W.E.B. Du Bois by a few years. To Woodson, […]