Tag: trailblazer

(AURN News) — On Sept. 8, 1965, the world lost Dorothy Dandridge, a groundbreaking actress, singer and dancer who helped change the…

(AURN News) — Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Parton built a career…

(AURN News) — DuJuan McCoy’s latest business move is about more than adding another television station to his portfolio. It is about…

(AURN News) — Billy G. Mills, a pioneering civil rights attorney, Los Angeles councilman and judge, has died at 96, according to…

(AURN News) — Gerald Talbot, a civil rights trailblazer and the first Black person elected to the Maine Legislature, died May 9…

(AURN News) — On this day, April 9, 1898, trailblazer Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey. One of the most…

(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 58 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,…

(AURN News) — On Oct. 10, 1927, Hazel Johnson-Brown — the first Black woman to become a U.S. Army general — was…

On Sept. 17, 1983, Vanessa Williams made history at just 20 years old when she became the first Black woman crowned Miss…

On Aug. 7, 1948, Alice Coachman became the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, triumphing in the high jump…

According to Sports Illustrated, Dick Crews — the first Black men’s basketball player at the University of Washington — has died at…

According to Essence Magazine, Clarence O. Smith, one of its four founding pioneers, passed away on April 21 at the age of…