Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Mary Lou Williams was an African‑American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional vocalist, widely regarded as one of...
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first Black graduate nurse in the United States. Mary Eliza Mahoney...
Every people should be originators of their own destiny. Martin Robinson Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) stands as one of the most formidable and multifaceted intellectuals of the...
“The reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots.” Kofi Ghanaba, also known as Guy Warren, was one...
“We now come to the harbour of Keelwa; from this port a very considerable trade carried on with...
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life helped lay the moral and intellectual groundwork for the modern civil rights movement....
Anna Albertine Olga Brown was a famous late 19th‑century circus performer known as Miss La La. Lala was...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse, educator, and author who championed the cause of African American nurses....
Addie Mae Collins was one of the four African-American girls, murdered in a racially motivated terrorist attack perpetrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan, when a bomb exploded at the...
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was the composer of Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrika (God Bless Africa). Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrika has been...
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was the only known adult passenger of African ancestry who died on the ill‑fated...
Lucy Craft Laney was an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia, which became known as Haines Normal and Industrial Institute. She...
