Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas published works comprise 300 volumes and...
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first Black physician to be appointed to the staff of a New York municipal...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor...
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet,...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti before the introduction of women’s...
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...
Richard Potter, c. 1783–1835, was a pioneering magician, ventriloquist, and humorist. Widely regarded as the first American-born professional magician to achieve national fame, later historians have also described him as America’s...
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…
