Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley, nicknamed the “Sunshine super girl” is an Australian former World No. 1 female tennis player. She was one of the world’s leading players in the 1970s and early...
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940s and died at the very young age of 24. She was also...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African American conjoined twins who...
[dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]ucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. She composed a...
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…
