Sugar Ray Robinson is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight...
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life...
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a ground-breaking nurse, educator, and author who championed the cause of African American nurses. She was the first Black nurse to serve as a voting member on...
Patrick Henry Reason was one of the earliest African-American engraver and lithographer in the United States. His artistic...
Mme. Abomah—also billed as the “Amazon Giantess” and the “African Giantess”—was an African American performer who became an...
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman...
In 1855, Anna Maria Weems escaped to freedom disguised as a man named “Joe Wright.” This fifteen-year-old girl had...
“First man to die for the flag we now hold high was a Black man” (a line from...
Samuel Green was an African American self-emancipated man, Methodist exhorter, farmer, and Underground Railroad agent. In 1857, amid suspicions that he had assisted people liberating themselves from the Maafa—including the group...
Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by...
Harry Haskell “Bucky” Lew is best known as the first Black professional basketball player in the United States. In 1902, at age 18, he joined Lowell’s Pawtucketville Athletic Club in the...
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…
