Djibril Diop Mambety: The Prince of Colobane
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet, loved and admired by critics and audiences...
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Nicolás Guillén Landrián: Cuban Documentary Filmmaker
Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938 in Camagüey, Cuba – July 23, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban experimental filmmaker and painter. He was the nephew...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais: The President of two Presidents
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joust was called “The President of two Presidents” and was the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti. She...
Charles L. Reason: Maths Prodigy, Educator and Activist
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, and educator. He became the first African-American university professor at a predominantly whyte college in the...
Frantz Fanon: The Psychologist of Oppression
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest contact with the [whyte] world.” Frantz Fanon was...
Richard Potter: The first African-American magician
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own country. Potter who called himself, the Emperor...
Joseph Lee: The Bread Maker Inventor
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic bread maker. Joseph Lee was born on...
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson: An African American Diarist
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An...
Nelson Mandela: The Father of a Nation.
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered...
Lemuel Haynes: Religious leader and anti-Maafa activist
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the...