“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at...
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for the sheer number of inventions created and patents secured but also for the...
[dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]harles Hamilton Houston one of the most important civil rights attorneys in American history. Known as “The...
Josephine Silone Yates was an African American teacher, journalist and clubwoman, who was the first African American certified...
James Forten was an African American abolitionist, businessman and Black leader in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 2nd, 1776, one of two children of Thomas...
Walter S. McAfee was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world’s first lunar radar...
Henry Edwin Baker, Jr. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party. Cleaver was born on August 31,...
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but...
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]tis Frank Boykin was an African-American inventor and engineer. Boykin is credited with patenting twenty-eight electronic devices...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn...
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…
