Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials...
George Latimer, the father of inventor Lewis Howard Latimer, was the first fugitive from the Maafa (Atlantic slavery)...
James Armistead [Lafayette], an enslaved African American, was the most important revolutionary war spy during the American Revolution. Born into the Maafa (slavery) around December 10, 1748, in New Kent, Virginia,...
Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free black who masterminded what would have been the...
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of...
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the first documented African American to...
This pictorial post features a powerful 40-panel visual narrative by Haitian artist Joseph Kendy titled “Noir & Blanc”...
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who distinguished himself as a national war hero, statesman and civil-rights leader in the Reconstruction South, serving five terms in the United States House...
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a prosperous home; his father was a local elder. Kidnapped with his sister at...
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…
