Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Alvin Ailey Jr., the African American choreographer, dancer and activist is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing...
Harry Haskell “Bucky” Lew is best known as the first Black professional basketball player in the United States....
“I had to work against all the odds to succeed, but succeed I did.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist scholar and historian and a pioneer in the creation of...
John Lee Love was an African American inventor best known for patenting a portable pencil sharpener, widely known...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the...
On December 21, 1855, at 2.30pm, Celia an enslaved woman was hanged for the murder of her abusive enslaver, Robert Newsom. In 1850, Celia was sold to Robert Newsom when she...
Carter G. Woodson, known as The Father of Black History, was the African American historian who first opened...
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., born on December 18, 1912, in Washington, D.C., was a pioneering pilot, officer, and...
Ossie Davis was one of the most recognized and influential African American performers and activists of the late twentieth century. The acclaimed actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playwright and civil rights activist,...
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...
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…
