Alexander Dumas: Alexandre the Greatest
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]eneral Thomas Alexandre Dumas, called “Alexandre the Greatest” was the highest-ranking Black man of all time in a continental European army. He was the first Black...
Category : History Makers
Dorothy Height: Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Activist.
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and women’s equality in the United States. She...
Ignatius Sancho: A Man of Letters
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his lifetime and after his death...
The Heroic Ancestor: Madison Washington
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live free in Canada while the woman he...
Anastacia: Saint of Brazil
Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman wearing a mask and collar. They pray…...