Author: James Hughes
Did You Know a Black Woman’s Math Put Astronauts in Space, While She Was Forced to Use a “Colored” Bathroom? America’s space race is remembered through rockets, astronauts, and Cold War rivalry. Less often remembered are the people whose calculations made those launches survivable, and whose brilliance coexisted with everyday humiliation. One of them was […]
In contemporary hip-hop, sex appeal is no longer a marketing add-on, it is often part of an artist’s authorship. Today’s most visible American female rappers deploy confidence, fashion, performance, and lyrical boldness as tools of control, not compromise. Their appeal sits at the intersection of image, business savvy, and cultural impact. Below are standout artists […]
Bessie Coleman did not ask for permission to fly. When the United States refused to train her, she crossed an ocean, learned another language, and returned with a pilot’s license, and a mission. In doing so, she became the first Black woman and the first Native American woman to earn an international pilot’s license, reshaping […]
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has found herself at the center of a political and media storm after a two-part Vanity Fair feature drew on a series of extensive interviews in which she offered unusually blunt assessments of President Donald Trump’s leadership style and the inner dynamics of his second-term administration. The reporting, […]
Robert Sengstacke Abbott stands as one of the most influential figures in American media history, a man who understood long before others that controlling the narrative could change the destiny of a people. As the founder of the Chicago Defender, Abbott did more than publish a newspaper. He built a media institution that reshaped Black […]
