Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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...
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. Authorities claimed the murder...
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...
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]eneral Thomas Alexandre Dumas, called “Alexandre the Greatest” was the highest-ranking Black man of all time in a continental European army. He was the first Black man in the French...
“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...
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who...
According to historian Ivan Van Sertima, drawing on the 17th‑century writer al‑Makkari and early Spanish chroniclers, an African...
Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby is the most comprehensive and compelling collection of words and writings by women of African descent through the ages. Arranged chronologically, it charts a new...
