Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African American men who were lynched on August 7, 1930, in...
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111...
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 the Maafa (slavery) to a family...
James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
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 culture and civil rights and sang...
1. Proverb: Finger neber say “look here,” him say “look yonder.” Translation: Finger never says “look here,” he...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond...
William Kamkwamba (born 5 August 1987) is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in Malawi in 2001, when, at the age of 14, he built an electricity‑producing windmill...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —President...
