Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
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 point out their own faults. 2....
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...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on August 5, 1895, in Camilla, Georgia. Often referred to as the “Georgia Deacon”...
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...
“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.” In his phenomenal book, Dreams From...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter,...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
“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. Music I think should be teaching...
