George Dixon: First Black Boxing Champion
George Dixon also known as “Little Chocolate,” was a Black Canadian professional boxer. He was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class,...
Category : Biographies
Interview with Wilbert Smith, author of Hole in the Head, the story of Vertus Hardiman
“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to live his life in spite of what...
Johnson Beharry: A Military Hero
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers...
Rita Marley: Queen of Reggae
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,” Rita Marley has spent time and energy...
Emmett Till: A Stolen Life
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a whyte woman. His...
Adele Addison: Singing Beauty
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. She is best...
Frank Alvin Silvera: The Man with a Thousand Faces
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man with a thousand faces” because of his...
Alexandre Dumas: The Father of great swashbuckling historical epics
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas...
Ira Aldridge: The Great Shakespearean Actor
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of...
Alice Augusta Ball: The African-American chemist who developed an effective treatment of leprosy
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940s and died at the very young...