Sammy Davis Jr: Mr. Entertainment
For a staggering 60 years, from his debut as a four year old child star in the late 1920’s to his untimely death in 1990...
Author : Uchenna Edeh
Reginald F. Lewis: Billion Dollar Businessman
Reginald F. Lewis, the owner of TLC Beatrice International, a $500 million European conglomerate in food processing and distribution, was at one time the most...
Richard Pryor: Comic Genius
Richard Pryor was one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his generation, and starred in a number of hit films and comedy recordings. He...
João da Cruz e Sousa: The “Black Swan”
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist movement in Brazil. Called the Cisne Negro...
The Jonestown Massacre
On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died...
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...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Kwame Ture was a Pan-African revolutionary, who held the rank of Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party (Philadelphia chapter). Ture was born in...
Cathay Williams: The first African American woman to enlist in the U.S. Army
Cathay Williams (1844 – 1892), a.k.a. William Cathay, was the first known African American woman to enlist in the United States Army, and the only...
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,...
Dr. Edward Scobie: An authority on the African presence in early Western Europe
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks in Britain distinguished himself as an...