Author Uchenna Edeh

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political orientation and oratorical skills honed from years as a preacher, Revels filled a vacant seat in the...

Serena Williams is the African American tennis player who has revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play, becoming one of the game’s most dominant athletes in the early 21st century. T...

George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners' rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerate...

Jean Augustine became the first Black woman elected to the Parliament of Canada. An energetic advocate of social justice, she worked as the principal of an elementary school before entering federal politics. Am...

Michaëlle Jean, (born September 6, 1957, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the African Canadian journalist and documentarian who was Canada’s 27th governor-general (2005–10) and the first person of African heritag...

Joe Sealy is a highly successful African Canadian Jazz musician, composer, recording artist and radio broadcaster. His 1997 Juno Award winning Africville Suite inspired Ron Foley MacDonald of The Halifax Daily ...

Portia White (June 24, 1911-February 13, 1968) was an African Canadian contralto singer who overcame the obstacles of gender, race and the exclusive nature of the classical music world to gain international ren...

An award-winning broadcast journalist, Ed Bradley, remains best known for his work on the weekly news program 60 Minutes. Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. was born on June 22, 1941. His parents separated soo...

“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exter...

Marie-Joseph Angélique was an enslaved Black woman in Montréal. In 1734, she was charged with arson after a fire leveled Montréal’s merchants' quarter. It was alleged that Angélique committed the act whil...