Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born...
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[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]tis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer. Boykin is credited with patenting twenty-eight electronic devices...
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1. When I was younger, like everyone else, I believe that Black people did not have any history and the only thing we contributed to world culture was to be everyone...
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[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]rthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. was an African American physicist and educator who helped develop solar telescopes used in 1987 to capture the first detailed images of the Sun’s outermost...
Charles Ball was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive, The Life...
“It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to...
“A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.” ~Claudia Jones Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The hardest hit, the place where so many lost their lives, was the Lower Ninth...
