Sheroes of Africa

The contributions of black people to America’s history across various fields have, over the years, been largely forgotten and this is also evident in the spirits industry. The...

After 18 years of working as a news reporter and a producer, Sheila D. Brooks decided to call it quits in 1990 and become her own boss. Her...

While Black women win every day, it’s not every day they all have a common ancestry. On the African continent, Nigeria is lifting the continent’s name high while proving...

Lashanta and Lateasha Witherspoon are breaking barriers and challenging gender norms associated with certain types of jobs in the United States. They are the founders of a trucking...

The daughter of a civil servant and a housewife, Fatou Bensouda grew up in the West African city of Banjul, the capital of Gambia. Her father, Omar Gaye...

Nigerian-born Ope Bukola left a career at Google to start her own business. She is the co-founder and CEO of Kibo School, an online university that offers affordable...

At just 13 years old, Alena Analeigh Wicker is set to become the youngest Black medical student in U.S. history. After graduating high school just last year, she...

Janet Gyimah-Kessie joined a programme in Ghana that promoted the cultivation of cassava in 2002. What started as an acre of cassava has since grown into a cultivation and processing...

When Catherine Krobo Edusei first took her freshly grown herbs to the local supermarket in Accra, the manager didn’t know what they were. Ghana, like many African countries,...

Nigeria’s Toyin Tofade, last Wednesday, became the first black female president of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) founded in 1881. According to a press...