St. Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born woman who was enslaved before becoming a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy,...
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca...
“This old hammer killed John Henry But it won’t kill me, it won’t kill me.” John Henry is an African American folk hero of extraordinary strength. John Henry was a “steel-driving...
Zamor was a French revolutionary of Bengali origin, who as a boy of eleven, was sold into slavery...
Lear Green was an enslaved African American young woman who escaped from Baltimore slaveholder James Noble by hiding...
Frederick Bruce Thomas also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas was an African American who led an extraordinary life in Russia and later, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul). Frederick Bruce Thomas was...
Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked...
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. A talented player, Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award...
Richard Theodore Greener, the African-American educator, lawyer, consular officer and reformer was the first Black graduate of Harvard...
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first...
Jenny Slew was a Black woman kidnapped into American slavery, who later petitioned for her freedom in court. Slew was the first ‘enslaved’ person to win her freedom by jury trial...
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…
