“In your desire to accomplish greatness, you must first decide in your mind in what direction you desire...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith in the United States after arriving...
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator....
“We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new African reality and be a major factor in rescuing the world from the...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
Langston Hughes was an African-American poet and social activist who became the leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, Hughes was an...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of...
On January 24th, 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia declared war. The ship, anchored on the...
François Makandal (also spelled Mackandal) is a legendary figure in Haitian history. As a Maroon leader, he orchestrated one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to dismantle the French system...
