What is the Maafa?
April 19, 2026
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An African American diarist of the early...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment....
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and the university’s first African American graduate. She was...
“History is the struggle and record of humans in the process of humanizing the world, i.e., shaping it...
Gideon Edward Smith sometimes referred to as G. E. Smith, was an American football player and coach. Smith...
William T. Shorey was a late 19th-century Caribbean-American whaling ship captain affectionately known to his crew as the Black Ahab, after Moby Dick’s protagonist. He was born in Barbados on July...
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…
