“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did...
“First man to die for the flag we now hold high was a Black man” (a line from...
On the night of 2nd March 1795, Julien Fédon, launched a revolution against British rule in Grenada, to abolish the Maafa. The uprising, which continued until June 19, 1796, became known...
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]lanche Kelso Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate,...
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to...
Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated anti-slavery activist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, after being suspected...
“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.” Marian...
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” ~President Obama “Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only...
Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012....
Ann Cole Lowe was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe’s one-of-a-kind designs were...
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years...
In 1990, Dr Haki R. Madhubuti begins his book, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?, with the statement, “The pain is in the eyes. Young Black men in their late twenties or...
