Jakob Marengo: National Hero of Namibia
Jakob Marenga (also known as Jacob Morenga), is a national hero of Namibia. Marenga, which means King in Otjiherero, was an early resistance hero of...
Category : Black Firsts
Jesse Owens: Olympic Legend
Jesse Owens achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in...
Euphemia Lofton Haynes: The first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics. Euphemia Lofton...
Otis Redding: The King of Soul
Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in Soul and R&B. Known...
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...
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...
Althea Gibson: Queen of Tennis
“I Always Wanted to Be Somebody.” Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to win a Grand Slam title (the French Open). In...
Joseph Douglass: The Black concert violinist
Joseph Douglass (1871–1935) was a groundbreaking African-American concert violinist. He was the grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglas; and was widely viewed as Douglass’s favorite grandchild....
Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr.: The African American physicist who helped develop solar telescopes
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]rthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. was an African American physicist and educator who helped develop solar telescopes used in 1987 to capture the first...
Muhammad ibn Tumart: The First Leader of the Almohads
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]uhammad ibn Tumart (ca. 1080-1130) was a North African religious reformer who founded the Almohad movement in North Africa. His organization of Berber warriors...