Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Robert Allen “Bob” Cole (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was an African-American composer, actor, playwright, and...
“I am a [Black]. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits...
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 degree in Fine Arts from the...
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain,...
[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 the legendary “Swamp Fox” from South...
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member...
This pictorial post features a powerful 40-panel visual narrative by Haitian artist Joseph Kendy titled “Noir & Blanc”...
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 ashamed hopeless tired mad but always...
“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...
