“Yaa Asantewaa The woman who fights before cannons You have accomplished great things You have done well” Yaa...
Henry Blair was the second documented African-American inventor to be issued a patent by the United States Patent...
John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United State. Rock was an eloquent African American activist and master...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther...
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as a boy and sold into the Maafa (slavery). Venture became a figure of...
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera,...
Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and political leader, known within Puerto Rico as...
“Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children’s children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect.”...
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
In 1734, Marie-Joseph Angélique was accused of setting a fire that destroyed the city’s merchants’ quarter in Montreal....
Salem Poor was a distinguished military hero during the American Revolutionary War. He is best remembered today for his actions during the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Poor...
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…
