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      Horace King: From Enslaved Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect

      Meserette Kentake
      September 8, 2015
      African American, Famous Virgo, History Makers, Maafa
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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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      William DeHart Hubbard: The first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event

      Meserette Kentake
      November 25, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

      Meserette Kentake
      June 20, 2017
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      Josiah Henson: Founder of the Black community settlement of Dawn in Ontario, Canada

      Uchenna Edeh
      June 14, 2017
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      Henry Johnson: Buffalo Soldier

      Meserette Kentake
      June 11, 2017
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      Azie Taylor Morton: The First African American Treasurer of the US

      Meserette Kentake
      February 1, 2016
      African American, Black Firsts, Herstory
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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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      Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

      Meserette Kentake
      February 4, 2017
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      Ten Amazing Quotes by Billie Holiday

      Meserette Kentake
      July 17, 2015
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      Ten Thought-Provoking Quotes from “The Mis-Education of the Negro”

      Meserette Kentake
      April 3, 2018
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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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    • US athlete Wilma Rudolph shows the gold medal she won at the Women's 100 meters Summer Olympic Games sprint event on September 2, 1960 in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo)

      Ten Inspirational Quotes by Wilma Rudolph

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

      Meserette Kentake
      May 1, 2017
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      Ten Revolutionary Quotes by Thomas Sankara

      Meserette Kentake
      December 21, 2016
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      Alex Haley: Author of 'Roots'

      Uchenna Edeh
      August 11, 2015
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      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

      Meserette Kentake
      April 19, 2018
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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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      Langston Hughes: Poet Laureate of the Black Race

      Meserette Kentake
      February 1, 2017
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      Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet

      Meserette Kentake
      December 5, 2016
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      The Art of Anthony Burks

      Uchenna Edeh
      May 31, 2014
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      The Orisha Art of Erik Olivera Rubio

      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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Jackie Ormes cover

Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

Uchenna Edeh
August 1, 2017
African American, Art & Photograpy, Black Artist, Black Firsts, Famous Leo, Herstory
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside Pittsburgh. She was a self-taught artist who had several successful comic strips and cartoon characters, and th...
Anna Mac Clarke

Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

Meserette Kentake
June 20, 2017
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Gemini, Herstory, History Makers
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all European regiment, when the United States military was still segregated. Clarke joined the Women's Army Corps ...
elizabeth jennings graham

Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

Meserette Kentake
June 5, 2017
African American, Herstory, History Makers, Sistory
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights activist, who challenged segregation on public transportation, a full 100 years before Rosa Parks did so....
Ella

Ella Fitzgerald: The First Lady of Song

Meserette Kentake
April 25, 2017
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Taurus, Herstory
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13 Grammys. In all, Fitzgerald recorded more than 200 albums and some 2,000 so...
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Meserette Kentake
February 4, 2017
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aquarius, Herstory, History Makers
"My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings." Rosa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to s...
Sarah Baartman

Sarah Baartman: The “first known Black female victim of trafficking

Meserette Kentake
December 29, 2016
African, Black Firsts, Herstory, History Makers
"We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth that must comfort her wherever she may be." --Thabo Mbeki Sarah Baartman, the "first...
madam-cj-walker

Madam C. J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire

Meserette Kentake
December 23, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Sagittarius, Herstory, History Makers
"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manuf...
Phillis

Phillis Wheatley: The first published African-American female poet

Meserette Kentake
December 5, 2016
African American, Authors & Poets, Black Firsts, Black Poets, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age of seven or eight. He...
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth: Aint I A Woman?

Meserette Kentake
November 26, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Herstory, History Makers, Maafa
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into the Maafa (slavery) in New York; enduring nearly 30 years of bondage to four dif...
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Queen Ranavalona lll: The Last Queen of Madagascar

Meserette Kentake
November 22, 2016
African, Famous Sagittarius, Herstory, Kings and Queens
Ranavalona III was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883 to February 28, 1897. During her reign, Queen Ranavalona III tried to stop the colonization of Madagascar ...
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