“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better...
Did You Know that around 75,000 years ago an African drilled tiny holes into the shells of snails...
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer and writer who has come to be known as the Father of Pan-Africanism. Williams coined the phrase, Pan-African and organised the First Pan-African Conference...
Ever since reading Sobonfu Somé’s book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship—a source...
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village,...
“First I’m Black and after that I’m many things.” ~Erik Olivera Rubio Afro-Cuban portrait artist Erik Olivera Rubio is known for his unique style of portraiture, and for focusing his art...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal,...
The Demerara Revolt of 1823 was the largest uprising in Guyana’s history and one of the largest revolts...
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists...
Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome,...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and civil-rights pioneer in New York City. More than a century before Rosa Parks’s...
