First Opera Created By A Black Composer To Officially Debut Nearly 140 Years Later
Edmond Dédé composed Morgiane 138 years ago, but his racial identity prevented the opera from receiving proper staging.
Elected officials, Civil rights leader honor the life of Greenville historian Ruth Ann Butler
The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Jackson Was Hired in 1951 By NACA, Was First Black Female NASA Engineer
Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity.
Historic meeting in Illinois paved the way for Black citizens’ rights
Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...
Who was Rosa Parks? Meet the woman who changed the course of history
The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
This Black trailblazer was the first woman of color to have a theater named after her in 50 years
The facility, which is officially called the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, is the only fine arts center to have been named after a woman of color in the last 50 years. It is also the first of ...
Maria Elena Cruz picked to be the first Latina and first Black person on the Arizona Supreme Court
PHOENIX -- Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state ...
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Eleni Skoura: The First Woman Elected in Greek Parliament
Eleni Skoura was the first woman elected to the Greek parliament, in a historic moment for the all-male institution.
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European Parliament finally devises plan to force lawmakers to actually turn up
BRUSSELS ― Tune into any European Parliament ... speaks once the first round of speakers on behalf of each group, usually the group chairs, have opened the debate. According to the email, which was ...
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Bulgaria's parliament approves new coalition government led by centre-right's Rosen Zhelyazkov
Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday formally approved ... The main political actor in the country, the GERB party, finished first in last October’s elections, the seventh in the last three years ...
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Archie Wade, first Black faculty member at University of Alabama, dies at 80
In 1970, he became the first Black faculty member at UA, and would teach for ... A thrown pint bottle of whiskey just missed Whisteton, striking a woman seated below them.