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Really, Only 28 Days!

February 27, 2023

By Jaden, Class of 2021 The first people on earth were Black People. They lived in Africa a very long time ago. One of the places Black people lived was Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. They were hunters and fishers. At first, they had no clothes, tools, or houses. Then, they invented thousands of things. The first […]

Judson Whitlocke Lyons U.S. Register of the Treasury

January 15, 2023

Presented by Dannie Gore, Sr. Judson W. Lyons (1860-1924) was the 2nd African American Register of the United States Treasury, appointed by President William McKinley 1898-1906. One of America’s highest ranking African American government leaders at the time. Lyons’ signature appears on many notes during that period, including the 1899 $5 Silver Certificate commonly called […]

Neurologist and Pioneer in Biology Charles Henry Turner Broke Barriers

September 23, 2022

By Dannie Gore, Sr. Charles Henry Turner was a neurologist and a pioneer in the field of biology. He served as professor of Biology at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta from 1892 to 1905, and in his later years was a teacher at the Sumner High School in St. Louis. He made numerous contributions to […]