“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.” “The more you...
Ahmed Baba was one of the greatest African scholars. Amongst the Songhai, he was known as “The Unique...
Ethiopia was once ruled by a mighty Queen who destroyed Axum and its countryside, the churches and Christian monuments, killing thousands in the process. Her campaigns ended both the thousand-year supremacy...
“No one can figure out your worth but you.” Pearl Bailey was born on March 29, 1918, in...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker,...
Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of what is now northeastern Algeria. She led one of the most significant resistance...
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison...
Harold Lloyd Nicholas, born on March 27, 1921, was one half of the world-famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers. His...
Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped aboard a slave ship by a French sailor during the transatlantic crossing. Her...
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]eneral Thomas Alexandre Dumas, called “Alexandre the Greatest” was the highest-ranking Black man of all time in...
“Walter Rodney was the symbol of a committed scholarship; tears came to his eyes whenever he spoke of...
Janet Harmon Bragg was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence. Janet Harmon was born Jane Nettie Harmonon on March 24, 1907...
