Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr....
Jesse Owens achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history”. His achievement...
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans...
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to...
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.” Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers. A...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she...
Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in Soul and R&B. Known as the King of Soul, Redding...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]orace King was an African American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. King built the biggest American bridges...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
