Ota Benga was a Congolese man taken from Africa to the US, where he was featured in an...
Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer and writer who has come to be known as the Father...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal, when he won the long (broad) jump by leaping over 24 feet 5½...
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside...
Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman in the U.S. Army to command an otherwise all‑white...
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario, Canada. He is widely believed to be the model for “Uncle Tom” in...
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (born Elizabeth Jennings, c. late 1820s–June 5, 1901) was a Black schoolteacher, church organist, and...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary jazz and song vocalist, who won 13 Grammys. In all, Fitzgerald recorded more...
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist who organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in...
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human beings.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]osa Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the civil...
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…
