Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of...
Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in Soul and R&B. Known as the King of Soul, Redding...
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]orace King was an African American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. King built the biggest American bridges...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist...
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for...
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified to teach in the public schools of Rhode Island. Yates was also one...
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…
