Good News
Vanessa E. Wyche will become the first Black woman to serve as the director of a NASA center.
Dr. KMarie King will become the first Black woman to sit at the helm of a surgery division at an Academic Health Sciences Center in the United States.
The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra is slated to make history as the first all-Black classical symphony orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall.
The Hess Corporation awarded the Jackie Robinson Foundation with a $1.4 million grant for the creation of scholarships and a new museum.