Williamsburg is an independent city in Virginia,United States. As of the 2020 census,it had a population of 15,425. Located on the Virginia Peninsula,Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County on the west and south and York County on the east.
Hampton is an independent city in Virginia,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 137,148. It is the 7th-most populous city in Virginia and 204th-most populous city in the nation. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area,the 37th-largest in the United States,with a total population of 1,799,674 in 2020. This area,known as "America's First Region",also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake,Virginia Beach,Newport News,Norfolk,Portsmouth,and Suffolk,as well as other smaller cities,counties,and towns of Hampton Roads.
Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He is the longest serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Meharry Medical College is a private historically black medical school affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College,it was the first medical school for African Americans in the South. This region had the highest proportion of this ethnicity,but they were excluded from many public and private segregated institutions of higher education,particularly after the end of Reconstruction.
Tuskegee University,formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute,is a private,historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee,Alabama. It was founded on Independence Day in 1881 by the state legislature.
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans. Most of these institutions were founded during the Reconstruction era and are concentrated in the Southern United States. During the period of racial segregation in the United States,the majority of American institutions of higher education served predominantly white students,and disqualified or limited black American enrollment. Later on some universities,either after expanding their inclusion of black people and African Americans into their institutions or gaining the status of minority-serving institution,became Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs).
Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) is a public university in University Center,Michigan in Saginaw County. It was founded in 1963 as Saginaw Valley College. It is located on 748 acres (303 ha) in Saginaw County's Kochville Township,approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of downtown Saginaw.
Hampton University is a private,historically black,research university in Hampton,Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University Museum,which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia. First led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong,Hampton University's main campus is located on 314 acres in Hampton,Virginia,on the banks of the Hampton River.
Fred Hampton Jr. is an American political activist,based in Chicago. He is the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and the Black Panther Party Cubs. He is the only child of Fred Hampton,the Black Panther Party leader assassinated by police in Chicago on December 4,1969,with his fiancée,now known as Akua Njeri.
Alan Seth Chartock was the president and chief executive officer of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio,a National Public Radio affiliate,from 1981 to 2023. He was professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and is a professor emeritus of communications at the State University of New York (SUNY),and is executive publisher and project director for the Legislative Gazette,a weekly newspaper staffed by college intern reporters covering New York State government.
William Kent Brewster was an American pharmacist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Brewster was a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district from 1991 to 1997 and served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990.
William James Beal was an American botanist. He was a pioneer in the development of hybrid corn and the founder of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden.
Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink. It was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco,Texas,and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is now also sold in Europe,Asia,North and South America. In Australia,New Zealand and South Africa,Dr Pepper is sold as an imported good. Variants include Diet Dr Pepper and,beginning in the 2000s,a line of additional flavors.
Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland was an American university president and diplomat. He was the first African American to play football at Cornell University,and was chosen as an All American in 1937 and 1938. He was also the first African American to chair the American Red Cross Board of Governors,which named its Laboratory for the Biomedical Sciences in his honor. He was the first African-American to sit on the board of the New York Stock Exchange (1972),and the first appointed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's governing body,"The Corporation".
Sir D'Arcy Power,was a British surgeon,medical historian,and contributor of some 200 articles on famous surgeons and other related figures to the Dictionary of National Biography.
Wayne Alix Ian Frederick is a Trinidadian-American scholar,surgeon,and university administrator. He is currently serving as president of Howard University in Washington D.C. since July 21,2014. He also serves as the distinguished Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery.
Billy C. Hawkins is an American academic administrator,and teacher. He served as a past president of Talladega College. Hawkins also serves as a board member of the United Negro College Fund and is a past member of the White House Board of Advisors on historically black colleges and universities.
The Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art is an art museum at Talladega College in Talladega,Alabama in the United States. The museum,which is named after donor and alumni William R. Harvey,includes the Amistad Mutiny murals by Hale Woodruff.
William Adams Brown was an American minister,professor and philanthropist.
