Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America....
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world! [dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]angston Hughes, best...
“The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented…as having started some time around 1830 AD when...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted...
Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy, was most famous as one of the Dead End Kids/East Side...
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to...
[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap] heodore K. Lawless was an internationally known African-American dermatologist, philanthropist, and medical pioneer. Dr. Lawless was...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
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…
