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first Black fire chief Paterson
January 17, 2024
It was on Sept. 11, 2001, when Michael Hall attended Fire Academy for the first time, using the 9/11 tragedy…
Dr. Lynn O'Connor NYPD
September 26, 2023
O'Connor has officially been sworn in as the first Black woman police surgeon in the New York Police Department's 178-year…
January 18, 2023
The 44-year-old Democrat, a best-selling author and former CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, won in a landslide in November.
December 8, 2022
The Maine House of Representatives elected Democrat Rachel Talbot Ross, a Black lawmaker from Portland, as speaker on Wednesday.
Charles Robinson
November 17, 2022
Charles Robinson, interim chancellor since August 2021, was elected as the University of Arkansas' first Black chancellor.
September 15, 2022
For the very first time, a Black man – David Emmanuel Goatley – has been chosen to lead the largest…
September 14, 2022
Andre Mathis will be the first Black man from Tennessee to serve as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court…
April 29, 2010
From the Zimbabwe Daily News: CHINA – 28-year-old Zimbabwean Vimbayi Kajese first came to China for a visit in 2004,
August 21, 2009
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one…
June 8, 2009
(AP Photo/Al Behrman) CINCINNATI – Alysa Stanton has become the first black female rabbi. She and thirteen others were ordained