Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford was a West African barrister, author, and political leader who dedicated his life to...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...
David Downey, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an all-around athlete in softball, basketball, volleyball, baseball, track, and swimming. Downey is the former Canadian Middleweight Boxing Champion who held the title...
John Ware lived in what we may consider the golden age of the ranching frontier and achieved heroic...
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for...
Romare Howard Bearden (September 2, 1911- March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer renowned primarily for his collages. In subject matter, Bearden’s brightly-colored collages featured a diverse array of...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as...
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but...
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This monumental event placed immense pressure on President John F....
