Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black Women’s History
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...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An African American diarist of the early...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded the Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia. A daughter of a...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University...
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...
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman and civil-rights pioneer whose 1946 challenge to segregation at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow became one of the most significant early legal...
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…
