Black History Month 2022 highlights Black health and wellnessASALH kicks off Black History Month with its second Virtual FestivalCities to visit during Black History MonthCarter G. Woodson: The father of Black History Month BLACK HEALTH AND WELLNESSResourceful, gifted Dr. Charles H. WrightMary Eliza Mahoney, the nation’s first Black professional nurseAnne Spencer, often forgotten poet of the Harlem RenaissanceDr. James McCune Smith, America’s first Black physicianOlympic great and nurse, Willye B. WhiteDr. Cornelius N. Dorsette, medical pioneer in the state of AlabamaDrs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, pioneering psychologistsThe medical Northcross family of Detroit Black PioneersHomer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow lawsElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rightsThe Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparationsFrank Crosswaith, a prominent Socialist and labor activistAnna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognition LAWJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judgeMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyer EDUCATIONEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaJo Ann Robinson, teacher and civil rights strategistDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historianDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educator POLITICSBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareilRemembering Mayor David DinkinsDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayorBarbara Jordan: An American hero BUSINESSViolet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of BusinessJames Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessmanHenrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral homeH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’Annie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty maven WHAT IT TAKES PODCASTWHAT IT TAKES: Sidney PoitierWHAT IT TAKES: Rosa Parks and Judge Frank JohnsonWHAT IT TAKES: Maya AngelouWHAT IT TAKES: James Earl JonesWHAT IT TAKES: Ernest Gaines MEDIAAlice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White HouseOct 22, 2020Evelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalismNov 1, 2018Trailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonMay 22, 2015Ethel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’Sep 18, 2014T. Thomas Fortune, famed journalist and civil rights leaderNov 21, 2013 SPORTSDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennisOlympic great Jesse OwensGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major Leagues Science‘Hidden Figures’ no more—Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson of NASAInventor Sarah E. Goode, the first Black woman awarded a patentMathematician Dorothy Vaughan, a pioneer in the Space AgeCelebrating Black inventorsBenjamin Banneker, the brilliant scientist and former freeman MilitaryMary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil WarDr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa MassacreFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardWilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil War EntertainmentZelda Wynn Valdes, a dress designer of the starsBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’A playwright of the ages, August WilsonFilm immortal, Hattie McDanielWild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composer
