James Cameron: The only known survivor of a lynching
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ames Cameron survived being lynched from a maple tree in Marion, Indiana, when he was sixteen years old. Cameron, who kept a piece of...
Category : Biographies
David Stuurman: Leader of the Khoi people
David Stuurman was a leader of the Khoi people, who fought against Dutch and the British colonialism in the Eastern Cape. Stuurman played a key...
The Last Days of Malcolm X
“I’ve been marked for death within the next five days.” By early 1965 most of Malcolm’s closest friends were afraid for his safety. They believed...
Frederick Douglass: The Greatest African-American Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The farm was...
Crawford Goldsby: The Outlaw known as Cherokee Bill
Crawford Goldsby was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of seven men (including his brother-in-law), he and...
William Sanders Scarborough: The first African American classical scholar
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam Sanders Scarborough is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery, Scarborough became a world-respected scholar of Greek...
John “Black” Caesar: Australia’s First Bushranger
John Caesar (1764 – 15 February 1796), nicknamed ‘Black Caesar’ was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first people of recent African descent...
Moneta Sleet Jr.: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist
Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of the...
Oliver Wendell Harrington: “America’s Greatest Black Cartoonist”
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and has been called the “greatest” African American...
Empress Taytu: Warrior Queen of the 1896 Battle of Adwa
Taytu Betul was a formidable queen and empress of Ethiopia (1889–1913). She was the wife of Emperor Menelek II, and was also the inspiration behind...