Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s 225th and last emperor. Emperor Haile Selassie I...
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet,...
Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly...
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in the late 1940s, his work became increasingly abstract. He was member of the...
Haile Selassie I (1892–1975), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, is remembered as a modernising African monarch,...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938 in Camagüey, Cuba – July 23, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban experimental...
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first official poet laureate. In 2010 Troupe...
