Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name...
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to...
[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap] heodore K. Lawless was an internationally known African-American dermatologist, philanthropist, and medical pioneer. Dr. Lawless was renowned for his research into the treatment and cure of syphilis, leprosy, sporotrichosis,...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into...
“There is still a powerful tendency to deny that humanity originated in Africa and that the African peoples of the world are related to each other, or even that Black people...
Almost sixty years before the Haitian revolution, a group of West African Atlantians (enslaved people) took control of...
Ranavalona III was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883,...
Angelo Soliman who achieved considerable fame as a “Princely Moor” in eighteenth-century Vienna, is historically recognized by some as the “First Moorish Freemason.” Soliman was born in Africa, around 1721. His...
Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American...
The Richard Pryor Show was an American comedy-variety show starring Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tuesday,...
“History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography....
