“Ayiti has been blessed to be a country where we have created all the essentials of the identity...
“We’ve survived colonization and enslavement and when you consider what we have gone through, the fact that we...
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...
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario,...
Charles Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American Harlem Renaissance artist who created vital...
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...
Henry Blair was the second documented African-American inventor to be issued a patent by the United States Patent...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life story...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. was an African American electrical and mechanical engineer and one of the leaders in...
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899—February 2, 1979) was an African American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Douglas’ distinctive style of...
