John Henry: African American folk hero
“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...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Zamor: The Black Jacobin
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery in the household of Louis XV’s mistress,...
Lear Green: Escaped to freedom in a small sailor’s chest
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding in an old wooden sailor’s chest. The...
Frederick Bruce Thomas: The Black Russian
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...
Peter Hill: The First African-American Clockmaker
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
The Five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on US currency
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. The signature of the Register of the Treasury appeared on United...
The Union of Two by Haki R. Madhubuti
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage is an art Created by the serious,...
Azie Taylor Morton: The First African American Treasurer of the US
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a person’s future to become what it becomes.”...
Richard Greener: The first Black graduate of Harvard University
Richard Theodore Greener, the African-American educator, lawyer, consular officer and reformer was the first Black graduate of Harvard University and dean of the Howard University...
Sarah Loguen Fraser: A Pioneering Pediatrician
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first African American female physician specializing in obstetrics...