Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was a trailblazing African-American writer, anthropologist, and folklorist of the Harlem Renaissance. She is...
John Hanks Alexander was the second African-American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, following...
Harry Haskell “Bucky” Lew is best known as the first Black professional basketball player in the United States. In 1902, at age 18, he joined Lowell’s Pawtucketville Athletic Club in the...
“There is no mental health for Black people without understanding racism and [European] supremacy; it is the major...
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing was a third-generation physician specializing in general and child psychiatry. Her book, The Isis...
On January 2, 1492, Moorish rulership of Spain came to an end when, Boabdil, the leader of the last Moorish City “Granada”, surrendered to armies of a recently united Christian Spain...
On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in Rosewood, a town with about 150 residents. Rosewood...
“I had to work against all the odds to succeed, but succeed I did.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke...
John Lee Love was an African American inventor best known for patenting a portable pencil sharpener, widely known as the “Love Sharpener.” Very little is known about his early life, and...
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...
“Compassion, my dear Brothers, is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers, but even with a torrent of tears I would never...
