“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
Trayvon Benjamin Martin was a 17-year-old African American teenager from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012....
Frederick Douglass was born Fredrick Bailey in February 1818 on Holmes Hill farm, near the town of Easton...
Crawford Goldsby was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of...
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]illiam Sanders Scarborough is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery, Scarborough became a world-respected scholar of Greek and Latin literature and served as...
Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the suffering of others.” [dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]ebecca Davis Lee Crumpler, was the first African-American woman to become a physician in...
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
Richard Theodore Greener, the African-American educator, lawyer, consular officer and reformer was the first Black graduate of Harvard...
Sarah Loguen Fraser was one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree, the first African American female physician specializing in obstetrics and pediatrics in the United States,...
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…
