Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson is remembered for his tragic death at 26 years old at the hands of...
Henry Armstrong was the first boxer to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three different divisions: the featherweight,...
“Compassion, my dear Brothers, is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers, but even with a torrent of tears I would never...
Fred “Duke” Slater was the greatest African American football player of the first half of the 20th century....
For a staggering 60 years, from his debut as a four year old child star in the late...
Ralph Gardner-Chavis, who was a pioneer in plastic chemistry, owns the distinction of being one of the scientists and technicians who worked on the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb....
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
Richard Pryor was one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his generation, and starred in a number...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and...
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas....
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.” Marshall Walter...
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…
