Wilma Rudolph: The fastest woman in the world in the 1960s
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an African-American athlete who in 1960 became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at...
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Mathias De Sousa: The first African-American in Maryland
Mathias de Sousa, possibly of African and Portuguese ancestry, is considered the first known Portuguese immigrant on record to have settled in North America. He...
James Weldon Johnson: Author of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature, and music. In 1900, Johnson wrote the...
The Horrific Lynching of Mary Turner
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific manner. She was eight months pregnant at...
Her name was Redoshi: The last survivor of the Maafa in America?
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith...
McHenry Boatwright: An African-American Bass-Baritone Opera Singer
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as a recitalist, and a soloist with orchestras...
Thomas Fuller: The Virginia Calculator
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform...
Jacob Carruthers: An Intellectual Warrior
“We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new African reality and be a major factor...
Charity Still: Who twice liberated herself from the Maafa
Charity Still, the mother of William Still, twice liberated herself from the Maafa/Atlantic slavery with her children. After her first self-liberation, she was recaptured with...
Daniel Hale Williams: The first African-American Cardiologist who performed the first successful open heart surgery
“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” –Daniel Hale Williams Daniel Hale Williams was one...