Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“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...
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte Democrats wanted to regain political domination...
“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...
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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...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the 24th President of Liberia. She was the world’s first elected Black female president and the first woman ever elected head of state on the continent of...
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,...
Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is considered the greatest gospel singer ever to live. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as “the single most powerful Black woman...
