Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist...
“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...
“There have been many outstanding leaders and generals in the African continent, but none captures the imagination as Shaka of Senzangakhona. From a small volunteer army of approximately 200 and a...
Cathay Williams (1844 – 1892), a.k.a. William Cathay, was the first known African American woman to enlist in...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks in Britain, distinguished himself as a leading authority on the history of Black...
Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay, the widely acknowledged founding father of Nigerian nationalism, was instrumental in laying the foundation...
“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy...
George Coleman Poage was the first African-American athlete to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis. Poage was born...
“There was a militarily gifted and exceptionally daring woman in the front line: Carlota, of Lucumbi origin…” In...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee was born on October 28, 1861, in Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Abraham McGhee and...
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…
