Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Black Canadian-American educator, abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, army recruiter, suffragist, and legal...
“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a formidable public intellectual. A poet, novelist, essayist, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, temperance worker, and...
Alberta Christine Williams King was the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the wife of the Rev....
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she held New Orleans spellbound, as her occult powers became legendary. The crypt where...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
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...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Lena Horne was a trailblazing American entertainer whose career as a singer, actress, and dancer stretched across seven decades, tracing a path from Harlem’s Cotton Club chorus line to international stages...
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…
