Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the 24th President of Liberia. She was the world’s first elected Black female president...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee...
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 27, 1922, Ruby Dee was a successful film and stage actress, playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist, perhaps best known for starring in the 1961...
Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is considered the greatest gospel singer ever to live. She...
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness...
Paul Bogle is one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, and leader of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, an event that transformed the political system of the island. Bogle’s face appeared on the...
James Alan Bland was an African-American musician and composer who was known as The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man....
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century...
Jomo Kenyatta was the first President of Kenya. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid-1890s, is unclear, and was unclear even to him, as his parents were illiterate, and...
Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers (1963–1974). Along with...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny Jackson was born enslaved in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained...
