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      Martin R. Delany: The Father of Black Nationalism

      Meserette Kentake
      May 6, 2016
      African American, Black Firsts, Famous Taurus, History Makers, Maafa
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    • Richard Eques

      Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica

      Meserette Kentake
      October 26, 2018
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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
    • Isaac Burns Murphy

      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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      Quvenzhané Wallis: The multi-award nominated child actress

      Meserette Kentake
      August 28, 2015
      African American, Famous Virgo, Herstory
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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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      Ten Profound Quotes by Richard Pryor

      Meserette Kentake
      December 1, 2015
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

      Meserette Kentake
      August 22, 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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      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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      Meserette Kentake
      February 1, 2016
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      A Black Wedding Song

      Meserette Kentake
      December 1, 2018
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      Ten ‘Black Body’ Quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World And Me”

      Meserette Kentake
      August 22, 2018
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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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      The Art of Hurricane Katrina

      Meserette Kentake
      August 23, 2015
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      The Orisha Art of Erik Olivera Rubio

      Meserette Kentake
      December 9, 2017
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    • Jackie Ormes cover

      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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Isaac Burns Murphy

Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

Meserette Kentake
April 16, 2018
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aries, History Makers
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy rode in the Kentucky Derby 11 times and was the...
Jo Ann Robinson

Jo Ann Robinson: Organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott

Meserette Kentake
April 17, 2017
African American, Famous Aries, History Makers, Shero, Sistory
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Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America. Jo Ann Robinson was born ...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie

Mary Elizabeth Carnegie: Nursing Legend

Meserette Kentake
April 19, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aries, Herstory, History Makers
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse and educator who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve as a voting member on the board of a state nursing as...
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Addie Mae Collins: One of the four Birmingham girls

Meserette Kentake
April 18, 2016
African American, Famous Aries, Herstory
Addie Mae Collins was one of the four African-American girls, murdered in a racially motivated terrorist attack perpetrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan, when a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church...
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Lucy Craft Laney: The Dark Vestal Virgin

Meserette Kentake
April 13, 2016
African American, Famous Aries, History Makers, Shero
Lucy Craft Laney was an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia, which became known as Haines Normal and Industrial Institute. She was princ...
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Aliko Dangote: Africa’s Richest Man

Uchenna Edeh
April 10, 2016
African, Famous Aries
Self-made billionaire Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man. Dangote was born on the 10th of April, 1957 in Kano, Nigeria. His grand father, the late Alhaji Sanusi Dantata provided him with a small capital t...
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John Willis Menard: The First African American elected to Congress

Uchenna Edeh
April 3, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Aries
John Willis Menard, an African American journalist, civil rights leader, editor, and poet became the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election results. Me...
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Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Uchenna Edeh
April 1, 2016
African American, Authors & Poets, Black Poets, Famous Aries
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His syncopated spoken style and critiques of pol...
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Jeremiah “Jerry” Alvin Jones: Black Canadian War Hero

Uchenna Edeh
March 30, 2016
Black Canadian, Famous Aries
Jeremiah "Jerry" Alvin Jones (March 30, 1858 - November 23, 1950) was an African Canadian soldier who served in World War I. He was apparently recommended for a Distinguished Conduct Medal but there is no recor...
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Pearl Bailey: Legendary Vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood Performer

Uchenna Edeh
March 29, 2016
African American, Famous Aries, Herstory
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an African American singer and actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years in all forms of entertainment from Vaudeville to Broadway to Cinema. Her un...
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