1. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” 2. I feel that I am...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13 Grammys. In all, Fitzgerald recorded more...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage...
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United States. African by birth, he went to Portugal as a young man, and...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
“The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented…as having started some time around 1830 AD when France invaded Cueta, the most northern part of Morocco closest to what will...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted...
Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, murdered in a coup, aged 37, was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. Sankara, a pan-Africanist, transformed the French annexed land of Upper Volta into...
