Mark Matthews: The Oldest Buffalo Soldier
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111 years, 30 days old when he died....
Author : Meserette Kentake
Thomas Lewis Johnson: Twenty-Eight Years a “Slave”
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in...
James Peters: The first Black man to play rugby union for England
James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7 August 1879 at 38 Queen Street Salford,...
Susie King Taylor: The First Black Army Nurse
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during...
Abbey Lincoln: The last of the Jazz singers
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the jazz singers,” Lincoln wrote songs about Black...
Ten Jamaican proverbs you should know
1. Proverb: Finger neber say “look here,” him say “look yonder.” Translation: Finger never says “look here,” he says “look yonder.”Explanation: People do not usually...
Bill Richmond: The first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond was the Muhammad Ali of his day...
William Kamkwamba: “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind!”
William Kamkwamba, born August 5, 1987, is a Malawian inventor and author. William Kamkwamba gained fame in his country when, in 2002, at the age...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers: The First Black Middleweight Champion
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to capture the world middleweight championship. He was the first African American after Jack Johnson to challenge...
Anna Murray Douglass: His story was made possible because of her love
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a free Black in rural Maryland, her parents,...