Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live. City of Cocoa honors Richard Blake, first African American principal in ...

In Sept. 1992, she joined six other astronauts on the Endeavor for eight days, making her the first African American woman in space. On her mission, she made 127 orbits around the Earth.

The couple started Hidden Tours DFW, a local tour group that focuses on the first 100 years of the Dallas African-American Experience.© Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News/TNS ...

She was the first African American woman to accomplish this feat. Her name may not be well known, but Bessie Stringfield’s prowess and bravado on a motorcycle are legendary.

It wasn’t until Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, that more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans were freed by executive ...

Reed is the first African-American woman to achieve detective in the department. Reed will retire in June, after 22 years as a police officer. Submitted photo ...

For the first time, an African-American reached the quarterfinals in all five pro disciplines at the same Grand Slam History has already been made at Roland Garros. By Van Sias Published Jun 04, 2025 ...

African American burial grounds across New Jersey The following is an unofficial New Jersey list compiled by this reporter through research, interviews and information provided by the state.

Don Barksdale broke barriers as an African-American by becoming the first member of the U.S. Olympic basketball team (1948), the first to win a gold medal (1948), and the first to play in the NBA ...

Sidney H. Cates III, a decorated veteran and NOPD’s first African American Deputy Chief, died at 94. He broke barriers in law enforcement and was a lifelong communit ...