Black Women’s History
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the jazz singers,” Lincoln wrote songs about Black culture and civil rights and sang...
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...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching...
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…
