Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
“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 I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was...
Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and the university’s first African American graduate. She was...
“History is the struggle and record of humans in the process of humanizing the world, i.e., shaping it...
Gideon Edward Smith sometimes referred to as G. E. Smith, was an American football player and coach. Smith...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, and two...
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…
