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The New Black View

Home » Black History Month

Black History Month 2022 highlights Black health and wellness

ASALH kicks off Black History Month with its second Virtual Festival

Cities to visit during Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson: The father of Black History Month

BLACK HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Resourceful, gifted Dr. Charles H. Wright

Mary Eliza Mahoney, the nation’s first Black professional nurse

Anne Spencer, often forgotten poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Dr. James McCune Smith, America’s first Black physician

Olympic great and nurse, Willye B. White

Dr. Cornelius N. Dorsette, medical pioneer in the state of Alabama

Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, pioneering psychologists

The medical Northcross family of Detroit

Black Pioneers

Homer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow laws

Elise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rights

The Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparations

Frank Crosswaith, a prominent Socialist and labor activist

Anna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognition

LAW

Judge William Hastie, the first Black federal judge

Conrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damned

Civil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judge

Macon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyer

EDUCATION

Edward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in America

Jo Ann Robinson, teacher and civil rights strategist

Dr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historian

Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educator

POLITICS

Bill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareil

Remembering Mayor David Dinkins

Dr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activist

Carl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayor

Barbara Jordan: An American hero

BUSINESS

Violet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of Business

James Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessman

Henrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral home

H. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’

Annie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty maven

WHAT IT TAKES PODCAST

WHAT IT TAKES: Sidney Poitier

WHAT IT TAKES: Rosa Parks and Judge Frank Johnson

WHAT IT TAKES: Maya Angelou

WHAT IT TAKES: James Earl Jones

WHAT IT TAKES: Ernest Gaines

MEDIA

Alice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White House

Oct 22, 2020

Evelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalism

Nov 1, 2018

Trailblazing African-American newsman Max Robinson

May 22, 2015

Ethel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’

Sep 18, 2014

T. Thomas Fortune, famed journalist and civil rights leader

Nov 21, 2013

SPORTS

Dr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennis

Olympic great Jesse Owens

George Coleman Poage: The first Black Olympian

Toni Stone, first female professional baseball player

Emmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major Leagues

Science

‘Hidden Figures’ no more—Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson of NASA

Inventor Sarah E. Goode, the first Black woman awarded a patent

Mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, a pioneer in the Space Age

Celebrating Black inventors

Benjamin Banneker, the brilliant scientist and former freeman

Military

Mary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil War

Dr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa Massacre

First Black fighter pilot, Eugene Bullard

Wilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee Airman

Sandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil War

Entertainment

Zelda Wynn Valdes, a dress designer of the stars

Billy Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artist

Josephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’

A playwright of the ages, August Wilson

Film immortal, Hattie McDaniel

Wild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composer

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