Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Crawford Goldsby was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam Sanders Scarborough is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery,...
John Caesar (1764 – 15 February 1796), nicknamed ‘Black Caesar’ was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first people of African descent to arrive in Australia. A bushranger usually...
Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and...
Taytu Betul was a formidable queen and empress of Ethiopia (1889–1913). She was the wife of Emperor Menelek...
Legend of the Crown: “The Art of African Kings and Queens” is more than a set of striking images; it is a visual genealogy of Afrikan sovereignty, dignity, and resistance. Over...
St. Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born woman who was enslaved before becoming a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy,...
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca...
“This old hammer killed John Henry But it won’t kill me, it won’t kill me.” John Henry is an African American folk hero of extraordinary strength. John Henry was a “steel-driving...
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding...
Frederick Bruce Thomas also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas was an African American who led an extraordinary life in Russia and later, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul). Frederick Bruce Thomas was...
