The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera,...
Hugo Chavez (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was Venezuela’s first multiracial president. He was the President...
Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and political leader, known within Puerto Rico as the “father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement”. To honor him, Puerto...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this...
“It is the responsibility of every adult to know their history and culture, to preserve it and then...
“No spring changes the desert. The desert remains; the spring runs dry. Not one spring, not a thousand springs will change the desert.” ~Ayi Aweh Armah I love Kwame Ture. In...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
Salem Poor was a distinguished military hero during the American Revolutionary War. He is best remembered today for...
Billy was an enslaved African American who became a principal in a court case during the American Revolution (1775–1783). In 1781, the Prince William County Court tried Billy for treason for...
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (June 9, 1877 – 18 March 1968) was an African-American sculptor, whose career lasted more than seventy years....
Lena Baker, an African American maid, was executed by the State of Georgia in 1945 for the murder...
Benjamin Rucker, better known by his stage name Black Herman, was an African American magician and one of the most prominent Black magicians of the early twentieth century. He blended spectacular stage magic...
