Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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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 Guerrero was one of the principal military leaders of Mexico’s struggle for independence and the country’s second president. A national hero in Mexico, he took office on 1 April 1829...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” ~Iyanla Vanzant Painting: “I see...
“Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank the creator for not having given it wings.”
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