Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter,...
Delos Rogest Davis, teacher and lawyer (August 4, 1846- April 13, 1915) was the second Black lawyer in...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and businessman. Born on August 4, 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina, Purvis was the...
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts of prejudice, I have allowed the words to cool and then I know...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and in most cases no boots.” ~Whitney Young Jr. Whitney Moore Young, Jr. was...
George “Buddy” Guy is an African American blues guitarist and singer, described by Eric Clapton as “the best...
George Dixon also known as “Little Chocolate,” was a Black Canadian professional boxer. He was the first black...
“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to live his life in spite of what was done to him.” ~ Wilbert...
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…
