Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
John McHenry Boatwright was one of the leading baritone-bass opera singers in America. Boatwright made numerous appearances as...
Thomas Fuller was an Afrikan man in captivity in North America, who became known as the Virginia Calculator....
“We must restore the historical consciousness of the African people. The reawakened Africans would then create a new African reality and be a major factor in rescuing the world from the...
Charity Still—born Sidney Steel—was the mother of abolitionist William Still and a foundational figure in the Still family’s...
“A people who don’t make provision for their own sick and suffering are not worthy of civilization.” –Daniel...
Ona Judge, known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was a bondwoman who worked on George Washington’s Mount Vernon labor camp/plantation, in Virginia. Beginning in 1789, she worked as a lady’s...
Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Ouale Kossula is...
“In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees...
Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy rode in the Kentucky Derby 11...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal,...
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside...
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...
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…
