Richard Egües: La Flauta Mágica
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...
Nancy Green: The first living trademark
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: Acquitted of murder in the Sweet Trials
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 Tambo: Holding the anti-apartheid movement together
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: The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame African-American Biochemist whose discovery led to a potential method of detecting life on other planet
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: Keeping Tap Dance Alive
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 ...
Ten Quotes by Professor Kaba Kamene (Booker T. Coleman)
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: Canada’s first Black Senator
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: Father of the Blues
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: The first African American woman professor
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...