David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston,...
David Downey, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an all-around athlete in softball, basketball, volleyball, baseball, track, and...
John Ware lived in what we may consider the golden age of the ranching frontier and achieved heroic status for his impressive physical strength, remarkable horsemanship, good nature and courage. Ware...
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...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the Africans and their children became the...
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...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party. Cleaver was born on August 31,...
“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...
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. His three-panel work, Amistad Mutiny murals (1938-1942), is held at...
