“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...
The Aba Women’s Riot, also known as the Women’s War, was an insurrection in Nigeria when it was occupied by the British to redress social, political, and economic grievances. The protest,...
“The Island of Gorée is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of...
“There have been many outstanding leaders and generals in the African continent, but none captures the imagination as...
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks in Britain, distinguished himself as a leading authority on the history of Black...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American...
“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy...
George Coleman Poage was the first African-American athlete to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis. Poage was born...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot that broke out on November 2, 1920. African-American-owned buildings and residences in northern...
