Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest contact with the [whyte] world.” Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique....
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary political thinker, originally from Martinique. His book The Wretched of the Earth (1961)...
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic bread maker. Joseph Lee was born on July 19, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts....
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the abandoned child of an African father...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment....
In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers; they were first recruited during the American Civil War (1861-65), and by the...
