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Altha Jeanne Stewart is an American psychiatrist. In 2015, Stewart was recruited by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to establish and direct the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth. While there, she became the first African American president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-ish-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also ...
In 1998, Anderson was elected president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, [9] becoming the first African-American to hold the position. [1] [10] He was the founding associate director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he was in charge of social and behavioral science, and was the first director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). [1]
At the time, only 10% of the 8,000 residents were African Americans. Pierce became the first African American president of his high school. In 1948, he received his A.B. degree from Harvard College and in 1952 he received his M.D. degree from the Harvard Medical School. After medical school, Pierce trained as a psychiatrist in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Daniel was the first African American woman to lead the American Psychological Association (APA), serving her term as president of the organization in 2018. [2] She was a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School and served as Director of Training in Psychology at Boston Children's Hospital. [3]
President Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European ancestry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936–1982), [ 3 ] was a Luo Kenyan [ 4 ] from Nyang'oma Kogelo , Kenya. [ 5 ]
Corporate and state interests had major influence in the city. He stated that the city was beyond electing someone because they were black. [7] He was reelected in 1974. [8] In 1976, Gibson became the first African-American president of the United States Conference of Mayors. [citation needed] He served as president from 1976 until the next ...
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.