The Lena Baker Story
June 8, 2016
Thomas Mundy Peterson—also recorded during his lifetime as Thomas Peterson, Thomas Mundy, Thomas Peterson-Mundy, and Thomas H. or...
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough—known to the world as Bernie Mac—was an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer whose fearless...
Nat Turner (c. 2 October 1800–11 November 1831) was a Black preacher, religious visionary, and revolutionary whose leadership of the 1831 Southampton uprising in Virginia made him one of the most...
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His...
David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a formidable public intellectual. A poet, novelist, essayist, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, temperance worker, and...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
Jesse Owens achieved feats that made him one of the most celebrated track-and-field athletes of the twentieth century....
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one of the most prominent Black women writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Although...
Horace King was an African American architect, engineer, master carpenter, and bridge builder. He became one of the...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the Africans and their children became 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…
