Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
James Van Der Zee was a renowned African American photographer and a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated for his evocative portraiture. Over his long career, he combined technical mastery...
Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) was a towering Caribbean-born intellectual, agitator, and educator whose life forces us to rethink...
No Black history library or book collection is complete without a work by Dr. Na’im Akbar. In addition...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep it simple: I’m a free Black man living in captivity. That’s who I am.” Mumia...
“Afrikans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors.” ~Haile...
Mary Turner was a young African-American woman lynched on May 19, 1918, near Valdosta, Georgia, in a horrific...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator. Although illiterate, he was able to perform the most difficult mathematical calculations in...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount...
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is widely recognised as the last known person born in Africa to have been...
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…
