Judge Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson - nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Biden on February 25, 2022. She is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including one with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice...

Dr. Fauci Wants People To Know Covid-19 Vaccine Was Developed By A Black Woman Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett ( How to Pronounce) - American viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Read More

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addresses supporters in Wilmington, Delaware: first woman to be vice president, first woman of color to be vice president, first woman of South Asian descent, first daughter of immigrants. Harris delivered her first speech as United States Vice President-elect on Saturday night Nov. 7, 2020, in an all-white...

Mellody Hobson - the first residential college at Princeton named for a Black woman. Mellody Hobson and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation have made the lead gift to establish a new residential college at Princeton University. Hobson College will be the first residential college at Princeton named for a Black woman and will be built on the site...

Who is Kamala Harris? A look at her background and career in politics. She is the junior United States senator, the first African-American, the first Asian-American, and the third female vice presidential running mate on a major party ticket.

Dr Kizzmekia Corbett ( How to Pronounce), the National Institute of Health's lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research tells CNN's Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta that a vaccine for coronavirus could possibly be available to the general public by next spring.

Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett ( How to Pronounce), Ph.D., of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center discusses efforts to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV) that causes COVID-19 in an interview conducted Jan. 28, 2020. Read More

The first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license. Coleman was a pioneer for black civil rights, earning a pilot license at a time when black women were barred from learning to fly in the United States. She traveled to Paris, France to learn to fly.

Sojourner Truth, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She devoted her life to the abolitionist...