Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and civil-rights pioneer in New York City. More than a century before Rosa Parks’s...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Juan Garrido was an African-born, free Black man who participated in the early Spanish invasions of the Caribbean,...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress and the first to sit in the United States Senate. A minister, educator, and Republican politician...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when...
Oliver Lewis made history on May 17, 1875, when he rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural Kentucky...
Matilda Arabella Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina. She became...
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first Black graduate nurse in the United States. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born on May 7, 1845, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
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…
