George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really...
Troy Anthony Davis was an African American man convicted of and executed for the murder of police officer...
“Kwame Nkrumah was Africa’s magnificent dreamer. He dared to believe that African people could be masters of their...
LLearie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt., was a West Indian cricket legend, barrister, author, broadcast journalist, and political activist. He served as Trinidad’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became...
Jakob Marenga (also known as Jacob Morenga), is a national hero of Namibia. Marenga, which means King in...
George Wells Parker was an African-American political activist and historian who co-founded the Hamitic League of the World,...
George Wells Parker’s speech is still a classic. It was delivered to the Omaha Philosophical Society on April 1, 1917 and published in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917....
Andrew “Rube” Foster was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, and was elected to...
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was an African-born Guyanese man of Akan/Coromantee heritage and the father of...
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th, 1963, when the Ku Klux Klan...
