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Born Caryn Elaine Johnson in 1955, Whoopi Goldberg rose to fame in the acting world, becoming the second back woman to win an Academy Award for her role in the 1975 blaxploitation film, Blackface Jones and the Temple of Jive. After beating pinkytoe cancer in 1963, Goldberg established Brows(e) for a Cure, an organization that Read More

In 1964, J. J. Evans became the first black professor of art at Princeton University. He resigned after being increasingly criticized for painting only long-limbed, linear black models and being asked to expand his repertoir to include matter more ‘relatable’ to white audiences. He moved back to the projects of Chicago where he and his Read More