Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” Rosa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil rights...
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...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth that must comfort her wherever she...
“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...
Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy, was most famous as one of the Dead End Kids/East Side...
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...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
