Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“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...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal, when he won the long (broad) jump by leaping over 24 feet 5½...
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...
Wilma Rudolph was an African American athlete who made history in the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals...
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...
1. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” 2. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which...
“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...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America....
