In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University...
“An artist paints his own reality.” “My early paintings have all the rawness and passion of the (football) game.” “One day on the playing field, I looked up and the sun...
Gideon Edward Smith sometimes referred to as G. E. Smith, was an American football player and coach. Smith...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the...
William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as the Black Ahab, after Moby Dick’s protagonist. He was born in Barbados on July...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist,...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]arl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Lovelace is special among...
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem. The New York City Draft Riot, with an official death...
Gullah Jack, also known as Couter Jack and sometimes referred to as “Gullah” Jack Pritchard, was an African...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist scholar and historian and a pioneer in the creation of Africana...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who went by the stage names “The Carolina Twins“, “The Two-Headed Nightingale” and “The...
