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Meet Floyd Norman Disney’s First Black Animator Who’s Still Animating Dreams at 90

The Librarian Who Defied Terror — Risking His Life To Protect Centuries of African History

Young Barack Obama with His Grandmother in Kenya, 1987 — Before the World Knew His Name

One of the First Black Women to Rule the Runway Came Straight Out of Jamaica

Mike Tyson Returns to Kinshasa — Reconnecting with His Congolese Roots 50 Years After the Rumble in the Jungle

One Man. Four Sports. Endless Legacy — Jackie Robinson Made History at UCLA

Meet Richard T. Greener — Harvard’s First Black Graduate Finally Receives His Statue of Honor

From the Free-Throw Line to Forever — The Leap That Made Michael Jordan a Legend

Meet the Engineer Who Changed the World Without a Call — Henry T. Sampson and His 1971 Invention That Led to the Cell Phone

They Dyed, Sewed, and Innovated — But Were Erased from History: The True Inventors of Blue Jeans

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Daughter Urges a Stop to AI Video Recreating Her Father’s Voice and Image

In 1971, Cheryl Browne Made History as the First African American to Compete in Miss America