“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson...
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads of our young and engraved upon...
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and...
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton...
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights...
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty...
“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome...
“Art at its best can heal. It can inspire the human spirit to soar new heights for the...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality...
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña ( August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831), the Mexican national hero was the first Black president in North America, when he became the second president of...
