What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
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...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and in most cases no boots.” ~Whitney Young Jr. Whitney Moore Young, Jr. was...
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...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a whyte woman. His murder on August 28, 1955, galvanized...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of African-American descent among the 33 actors...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first African American to hold a regular professorship at a predominantly Euro-American college 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…
