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...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was born on August 18, 1920, in...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the...
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and...
George “Buddy” Guy is an African American blues guitarist and singer, described by Eric Clapton as “the best guitar player alive”. Buddy Guy is an exponent of Chicago blues and has...
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…
