[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an African American lay midwife who...
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings...
“I fought all my life to bring about change, to correct the injustices and the inequities in the system.” Ethel L. Payne was an African-American journalist. Known as the “First Lady...
Richard “Tiger” Ihetu was one of the greatest boxers to come out of Africa. He made history in...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]erman Russell Branson (August 14, 1914 – June 7, 1995) was an African-American physicist and chemist, who...
Ernest Everett Just was an internationally known African-American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist who made major contributions to the field of biology through his pioneering research into fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, and cell...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]va Beatrice Dykes was the first Black woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree and...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Charles E. Anderson is the first African American to receive a PhD in Meteorology and to earn national acclaim as an expert on severe storms and tornadoes. Anderson was born on...
“I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States. I wanted America...
Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter who has been described as “perhaps the greatest...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of the Abochi drug against human parasites is widely reported in Ghanaian and Ewe sources and...
