Rube Foster: Father of Black Baseball
Andrew “Rube” Foster was one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981....
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Quamina – Guyana National Hero: involved in the Demerara rebellion of 1823
Quamina Gladstone, commonly known as Quamina, was a Guyanese Coromantee captive who was the father of Jack Gladstone. Quamina and his son were involved in...
The 1963 Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
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,...
Claude McKay: Radical Poet
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of the most militant and enduring poems associated...
Alberta Christine Williams King: The mother of a great man
Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often spoke of...
Jesse Owens: Olympic Legend
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...
The Christiana Riot of 1851
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse...
Euphemia Lofton Haynes: The first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics. Euphemia Lofton...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Peter Tosh
“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...
Georgia Douglas Johnson: The most famous woman poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Johnson...