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      Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins: Autistic savant and musical genius

      Uchenna Edeh
      May 25, 2016
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      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
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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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      Meserette Kentake
      September 3, 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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      Uchenna Edeh
      November 15, 2015
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      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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      Meserette Kentake
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      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
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      Sterling Allen Brown: Harlem Renaissance Poet

      Meserette Kentake
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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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Richard Eques

Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica

Meserette Kentake
October 26, 2018
Afro-Latino, Famous Scorpio, History Makers
Eduardo Richard Egües Martínez is one of the most famous flute musicians in Cuba, nicknamed "la flauta mágica" (the magic flute). Egües composed what are today classics of salsa, such as "Sabrosona", "Bomb...
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Nancy Green: The first living trademark

Meserette Kentake
November 17, 2016
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Scorpio, Herstory, History Makers
Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as "Aunt Jemima." The famous Aunt Jemima recipe...
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Ossian Sweet: Acquitted of murder in the Sweet Trials

Meserette Kentake
October 30, 2016
African American, Biography, Famous Scorpio, History Makers
Ossian Sweet was an African American physician in Detroit, Michigan, noted for his armed self-defense in 1925 of his newly purchased home in a whyte neighborhood against a mob trying to force him out. He, his f...
President Oliver Reginald Tambo presenting a speech during an ANC conference.

Oliver Tambo: Holding the anti-apartheid movement together

Uchenna Edeh
October 27, 2016
African, Famous Scorpio
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the Black African opposition to apartheid in South Africa. He remained active in the ANC, ultimat...
Emmett W. Chappelle

Emmett Chappelle: The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame African-American Biochemist whose discovery led to a potential method of detecting life on other planet

Meserette Kentake
October 25, 2016
African American, Famous Scorpio, History Makers
Emmett Chappelle is an African American scientist who has made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry. Chappelle is the recipient of 14 U.S. patents, ...
Savion Glover

Savion Glover: Keeping Tap Dance Alive

Uchenna Edeh
November 19, 2015
African American, Famous Scorpio
Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) is an African American dancer and choreographer known for his unique pounding style of tap dancing, called “hitting.” He has brought renewed ...
kaba kamene

Ten Quotes by Professor Kaba Kamene (Booker T. Coleman)

Uchenna Edeh
November 16, 2015
Activist, Black History, Famous Quotes, Famous Scorpio, Icons, Scholar
The community is calling forward information. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. All of these times, all of these people have been trying to get this out there: “You need to study this” ...
Donald H Oliver

Donald H. Oliver: Canada’s first Black Senator

Uchenna Edeh
November 16, 2015
Black Canadian, Black Firsts, Famous Scorpio
Donald H. Oliver is an African Canadian lawyer, businessman who became Canada's first Black senator in 1990. Born November 16, 1938 in Nova Scotia, Oliver grew up in a devout Baptist family of five children....
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W.C. Handy: Father of the Blues

Uchenna Edeh
November 16, 2015
African American, Famous Scorpio
W.C. Handy, born November 16, 1873 in Florence, Alabama, U.S, was an African American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then-fashionable ragtime music. Among h...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early

Sarah Jane Woodson Early: The first African American woman professor

Uchenna Edeh
November 15, 2015
African American, Black Firsts, Famous Scorpio, Herstory, History Makers
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was a teacher and school principal in Ohio, and in the South after the Civil War. In 1866 she became...
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