Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black Women’s History
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her large, painted story quilts. Born Faith Willi Jones October 8, 1930, in New...
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
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....
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one of the most prominent Black women writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Although...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois, she was instrumental in...
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…
