Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest contact with the [whyte] world.” Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique....
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An African American diarist of the early...
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. He was the first Black musician to enlist during the Civil War and...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia. A daughter of a...
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…
