Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and...
Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson is remembered for his tragic death at 26 years old at the hands of...
Henry Armstrong was the first boxer to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three different divisions: the featherweight, welterweight and lightweight world champion in 1938. Born on December 12, 1912, in...
Fred “Duke” Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century....
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and...
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas....
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.” Marshall Walter...
Savion Glover, born November 19, 1973, in Newark, New Jersey, is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and actor...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
