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      Ossian Sweet: Acquitted of murder in the Sweet Trials

      Meserette Kentake
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      Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica

      Meserette Kentake
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      Cudjoe Kossula Lewis: The “last African-American ancestor”

      Meserette Kentake
      July 26, 2018
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      Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia

      Meserette Kentake
      May 14, 2018
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      Paul Belloni Du Chaillu: The “African” Zoologist who became known as the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas

      Meserette Kentake
      April 29, 2018
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      Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

      Meserette Kentake
      April 16, 2018
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      Walter Tull: Black British War Hero

      Meserette Kentake
      March 25, 2018
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      Lucy Terry: Singer Of History

      Meserette Kentake
      July 11, 2015
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      Ayiti: An Interview with Professor Bayyinah Bello

      Uchenna Edeh
      January 1, 2019
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

      Meserette Kentake
      June 20, 2017
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      Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

      Meserette Kentake
      June 5, 2017
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      Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song

      Meserette Kentake
      April 25, 2017
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      Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott

      Meserette Kentake
      April 17, 2017
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      Meserette Kentake
      August 22, 2015
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette Kentake
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      Ten Powerful Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

      Meserette Kentake
      April 2, 2018
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      The best line from the Black Panther Movie

      Meserette Kentake
      March 1, 2018
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      June 23, 2017
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      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

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      A Black Wedding Song

      Meserette Kentake
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

      Meserette Kentake
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      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

      Meserette Kentake
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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2018
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      Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet

      Meserette Kentake
      May 1, 2017
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      10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2017
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      Oliver Wendell Harrington: "America's Greatest Black Cartoonist"

      Uchenna Edeh
      February 14, 2016
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      Meserette Kentake
      December 9, 2017
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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 1, 2017
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      Charles Alston: Reclaiming identity through art

      Uchenna Edeh
      November 28, 2016
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      Henry Ossawa Tanner: First internationally acclaimed African American artist

      Uchenna Edeh
      June 21, 2016
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      The Art of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

      Meserette Kentake
      June 9, 2016
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      Aaron Douglas: Major artist of the Harlem Renaissance

      Uchenna Edeh
      May 26, 2016
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William E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

Meserette Kentake
August 27, 2015
Activist, Educator, Famous Pisces, History Makers, Icons, Scholar
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard...
Asa Hilliard

Asa Hilliard, III: The Pan-Africanist educator

Uchenna Edeh
August 22, 2015
African American, Famous Leo, History Makers, Scholar
“To know Dr. Hilliard was in some respects to know Africa.” Asa Hilliard, III was a world renowned Pan-Africanist educator who worked on indigenous ancient African history (ancient Egyptian), culture, ed...
Dr. Runoko Rashidi

Runoko Rashidi: The Pharaoh of Black History

Meserette Kentake
August 16, 2015
Activist, Famous Leo, History Makers, Icons, Scholar, Writer
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Runoko Rashidi is an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and the world's leading authority on the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. A much sought after s...
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante: The Distinguished Afrocentric Scholar

Meserette Kentake
August 14, 2015
African American history, Black Firsts, Black History, Educator, Famous Leo, Icons, Pioneer, Scholar, Writer
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings on Afrocentricity, a school of thought that has influenced the fields of sociology, intercultural ...
Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden: A Voice from Bleeding Africa

Meserette Kentake
August 3, 2015
Activist, African Caribbean History, African History, Black History, Educator, Famous Leo, History Makers, Icons, Pioneer, Politician, Scholar
"Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element." Edward Wilmot Blyden was a Liberian educator, writer, diplomat,...
Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon: The Psychologist of Oppression

Meserette Kentake
July 20, 2015
African-Caribbean, Black Firsts, Famous Cancer, History Makers, Scholar
Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique. A revolutionary political thinker, he became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. His book The Wretched of the Earth (...
maulena karenga

Maulana Karenga: The creator of Kwanzaa

Uchenna Edeh
July 14, 2015
Activist, Famous Cancer, Icons, Scholar
“History is the struggle and record of humans in the process of humanizing the world, i.e., shaping it in their image and interests." (Black history is therefore the collective record of people of African des...
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Tariq Nasheed – Producer of the documentary film series Hidden Colors

Uchenna Edeh
July 1, 2015
Celebrity, Famous Cancer, Icons, Scholar
Tariq Nasheed, born July 1st, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan, is an author, documentary film producer, media personality, satirist, Internet radio host and social commentator. Nasheed produced the 2011 documentar...
Chandler breathe

Ancient Future: An Interview with Wayne B. Chandler

Uchenna Edeh
September 28, 2014
Interviews, Scholar, The Black Scholar Series
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"We’re universal entities. The way our DNA is coded, there’s nothing we don’t know. It’s a matter of locking into that body of information through the practices that our ancestors have left here for us ...
drumarjohnson

The Prince of Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Dr. Umar Johnson

Uchenna Edeh
July 13, 2014
Famous Leo, Interviews, Scholar, The Black Scholar Series
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Dr. Umar Johnson is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well as being an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviours that can ult...
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