Jacob Lawrence: Celebrated painter of the African-American experience
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as...
Category : African American
Interview with Dr. David Imhotep: The First Americans Were Africans
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the...
Claudette Colvin: Arrested nine months before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the...
Lewis Latimer: Prolific African American Inventor
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for the sheer number of inventions created and...
Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow”, he played...
Josephine Silone Yates: The first Black woman to hold a full professorship
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of...
James Forten: One of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the 19th century
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2nd, 1776,...
Walter McAfee: The African American Astrophysicist
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana. Walter McAfee,...
Henry E. Baker: The First Chronicler of African American inventors
Henry Edwin Baker, Jr. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in...
Ron O’Neal aka Youngblood Priest
Ron O’Neal (September 1, 1937 – January 14, 2004) was an African American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as...