Famous Scorpio

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...

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...

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 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 (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 ...

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 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....

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 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...

Mabel Fairbanks was an African American figure skater and coach. She was inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame, as the first African-American, and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. ...