John Lee Love was an African American inventor best known for patenting a portable pencil sharpener, widely known...
On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive...
Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa, between the mid-1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. Biko was the co-founder of the South African Students’...
“Compassion, my dear Brothers, is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean...
Fred Hampton was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party...
Ralph Gardner-Chavis, who was a pioneer in plastic chemistry, owns the distinction of being one of the scientists and technicians who worked on the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb....
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
“I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and...
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas....
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
“Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.” “In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.” “When...
