On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis...
Muhammad ibn Tumart (ca. 1080–1130) was a North African religious reformer who founded the Almohad movement in North...
George Bonga was a fur trader of African-American and Native American heritage, and one of the first African Americans born in what is now Minnesota. Bonga lived along the shores of...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist...
“My idea, my belief, my intention is for the United States of America to be known as a...
Archibald Henry Grimké was a leading African-American intellectual, activist, and author on racial equality in early 20th Century America. Grimké was born into the Maafa (slavery) near Charleston, South Carolina on...
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in...
Runoko Rashidi was an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and one of the world’s leading authorities...
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and little of his music is available...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onroe Nathan Work was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee...
Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be...
Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African-American nurse and a Californian real-estate entrepreneur and notable philanthropist. Mason who was born into the Maafa (slavery) become free after she moved with her enslavers...
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…
