Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —President...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter,...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. Born on August 2, 1924,...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. After practicing in Philadelphia for...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and...
George “Buddy” Guy is an African American blues guitarist and singer, described by Eric Clapton as “the best...
“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to live his life in spite of what was done to him.” ~ Wilbert...
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…
