Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
John Armstrong Howard was the first Black Olympic athlete from Canada, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The...
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not...
Lonnie George Johnson is an African American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is best known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among...
Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904), a school custodian from Perth Amboy, New Jersey...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a Black British politician, general practitioner and political activist, who was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian in the UK, having been granted a...
Nathanial “Nat” Turner was the leader of a powerful Maafa (slavery) revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831....
Alonso de Illescas was an Afro‑Ecuadorian leader and an icon for people of African descent in Ecuador. A...
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His invention was first flown on sounding rockets in 1966 and made the first...
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...
Troy Anthony Davis was an African American man convicted of and executed for the murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. Davis was on death row in Georgia for...
