Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an African American singer and actress whose career spanned...
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks...
Rose Fortune (March 13, 1774-February 20, 1864), a Black Loyalist originally from the US, is best-known for her talent as a businesswoman at a time when neither women nor Black persons...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
Born Horace Julian Bond on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Julian Bond was a scholar, poet, former legislator, and activist in the African American Civil Rights Movement. Bond was born...
Noble Drew Ali, born Timothy Drew on January 8th, 1886, was the founder of the Moorish Science Temple...
John Singleton is the African American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing Boyz n the...
Alvin Ailey Jr., the African American choreographer, dancer and activist is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance. His company, The Alvin Ailey American Dance...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the...
Carter G. Woodson, known as The Father of Black History, was the African American historian who first opened...
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., born on December 18, 1912, in Washington, D.C., was a pioneering pilot, officer, and administrator who broke barriers as the first African American general in the U.S....
