[dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]alph Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize....
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111...
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in the Maafa (slavery) to a family...
James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the jazz singers,” Lincoln wrote songs about Black culture and civil rights and sang...
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...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on August 5, 1895, in Camilla, Georgia. Often referred to as the “Georgia Deacon”...
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...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian. Considered one of the most influential...
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…
