Barack Hussein Obama II: The 44th President of the United States
“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...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Quotes from “Dreams From My Father” by President Obama
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.”...
Louis Armstrong: Ambassor Satch
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian....
Edward Wilmot Blyden: A Voice from Bleeding Africa
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element.” Edward Wilmot Blyden...
Lucky Dube: South Africa’s Best-selling Reggae artist
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music just talks about sex, women, and drugs....
James Baldwin: Witness to the truth
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest...
Roi Ottley: Outstanding writer and war-correspondent
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts of prejudice, I have allowed the words...
10 Powerful Quotes by James Baldwin
1. “There was something which all Black men held in common, something which cut across opposing points of view, and placed in the same context...
Henrietta Lacks: The birth of the Hela Cells
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington: The first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in...