Robert Allen Cole: A Pioneering Black Composer
Robert Allen “Bob” Cole (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was an African-American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director, who influenced the...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Walter Francis White: A Blond African-American Civil Rights Activist
“I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon...
Black Skin: White Mask – The Art of Laurie Cooper
Laurie Cooper is an African-American artist born and based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA degree from the University of Arts and her Master’s...
Will and William West: The doppelgängers that sparked the beginning of fingerprinting in the USA
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Their remarkable case...
Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain
It is said that there was a great deal of anger and even rage in the writings of Jacques Roumain, especially in his poem, “Filthy...
Oscar Marion
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of General Francis Marion (1732–1795). The general was...
York: The Black Explorer
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic slavery) in the 1770s, York achieved fame as the sole African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Virginia...
NOIR & BLANC: The Art of Storytelling by Joseph Kendy
These beautiful illustrations by Haitian artist, Joseph Kendy, tell the story of a heroic ancestor during the Maafa (Atlantic slavery). It is a pictorial love...
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...
Paul Robeson: 20th Century Renaissance Man
“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an...