Mansa Musa, the ninth emperor of the Mali Empire, is among the most renowned rulers in world history....
Ossian Sweet was an African American physician in Detroit, Michigan, noted for his armed self-defense in 1925 of...
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the Black African opposition to apartheid in South Africa. He remained active in the...
Emmett Chappelle is an African American scientist who has made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, philanthropy, food...
“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 Office. Born in 1807, Blair received his first patent on October 14, 1834,...
John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court...
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 Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life story...
Venture Smith, was the son of a royal family, who was kidnapped from his homeland in Africa as...
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 the “father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement”. To honor him, Puerto...
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…
