“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” –Daniel...
George Washington Carver (1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, who...
“We are not a people of yesterday. Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from our beginnings till now? We shall point them to the proper beginning of...
“We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates...
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful...
Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. Her paintings represent life in South Carolina’s Lowcountry and Louisiana bayous. A self-taught mixed...
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
Did you know that May B. Mason staked a gold claim in the Yukon mining territory in 1898, finding gold dust valued (back then) at $5000? May is believed to be...
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is...
“A Black Wedding Song” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a brief, blessing‑like lyric that frames Black marital love as...
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida, on October 26, 1934, in one of the most widely publicized and brutal lynchings of...
