Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond...
William Kamkwamba (born 5 August 1987) is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in Malawi in 2001, when, at the age of 14, he built an electricity‑producing windmill...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —President...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter,...
Delos Rogest Davis, teacher and lawyer (August 4, 1846- April 13, 1915) was the second Black lawyer in...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and businessman. Born on August 4, 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina, Purvis was the...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music...
Louis Delgrès was an African-Caribbean freedom fighter who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe against Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to restore the Maafa, and chose death over surrender. Delgrès was born on...
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…
