He left school after the sixth grade. He held 61 patents. And the reason fresh food can cross a continent — the reason a truck can carry ice cream through a desert summer — is that a trucker once complained to his boss about a load of chickens spoiling in the heat, and Frederick McKinley
She spent years putting other writers’ books into the world before the world ever saw one of hers. Then Toni Morrison published her first novel at 39, wrote Beloved, won the Pulitzer Prize — and in 1993 became the first Black woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is a tribute
Their own army wouldn’t fight beside them — so France took them, and they stayed on the front line for 191 days, longer than any other American unit of their size. The Germans gave them their name in respect and fear: the Harlem Hellfighters. The 369th Infantry Regiment was an all-Black New York National Guard
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He apprenticed as a shoemaker. He worked as a barber, like his father before him. Then Daniel Hale Williams earned a medical degree, built America’s first Black-owned hospital with his own hands and vision — and one summer night in 1893, with a dying man on the table and six doctors watching, he opened a