Black Fact of the Week

Black Fact of the Week: Kevin Garnett is the Highest-Paid Player in NBA History

August 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

That’s right, Kevin Garnett. Having raked in a smooth $327,372,398 over the course of his 20-season career, KG is the highest-paid baller in NBA history. The [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Ophelia Devore Opened One of the First Black Modeling Agencies in 1946

July 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Established in New York City during a time when Black women were generally excluded from the fashion industry and advertised as inferiors, Ophelia Devore-Mitchell’s [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Africa is the Most Ethnically Diverse Continent on the Planet

July 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

With ethnic groups that number in the thousands, the Motherland is recognized as the most diverse continent on planet Earth. In an 11-year study conducted by academics at [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Folorunsho Alakija is the Wealthiest Black Woman in the World

July 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Oprah Winfrey has had a pretty long stretch as the richest Black woman on the planet, but within the past year, Nigeria’s Folorunsho Alakija crept up and [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Earl Lloyd was the First African American to Play in the NBA

June 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Drafted by the Washington Capitols in 1950, Virginia native Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association in a game [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor is the Fastest Cyclist in History

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Marshall W. Taylor: November 26, 1878 – June 28, 1932 Despite segregation and racial discrimination at the turn of the last century, Marshall W. [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Black Women Have the Highest College Enrollment Rate in America

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

That’s right, in case you didn’t get the memo, the college enrollment rate for sistas is higher than any other group by race in gender in America, according to a [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Detroit Has the Largest Population of Blacks in the US

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

The great city of Detroit, Michigan is known for many things: Cars, food, Motown, Arethra Franklin…but now it’s time to add one more distinction to the list: [...]

Black Fact of the Week: Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is the Wealthiest Black Man in the World

May 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

With his hands in the sugar, flour, and (most notably) the cement markets, Aliko Dangote is both Nigeria’s first billionaire and the wealthiest Black man on the planet. [...]

Black Fact of the Week: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company is the Country’s First Black-Owned Insurance Corp.

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

The saying that you could be anything that you want to be holds truth, even in the midst of hardship and adversity, just take it from Charles Clinton, Dr. Aaron McDuffie [...]