Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s history of resistance. She liberated herself from the Maafa twice. During her first...
“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...
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes’s most widely anthologized poem was his first published poem,...
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...
“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” –Daniel Hale Williams Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first physicians to perform...
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...
“We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates patience and patience creates unity.” ~Malcolm X “When a westerner is born, he...
