Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Black British Composer and Political Activist
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and...
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Monroe Nathan Work: A leading early 20th Century Sociologist
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onroe Nathan Work was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908 and expanded its national...
Henrietta Vinton Davis: Lady Commander Order of the Nile
Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be “the greatest woman of the [African] race”....
Bridget “Biddy” Mason: From Bondage to Wealth
Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African-American nurse and a Californian real-estate entrepreneur and notable philanthropist. Mason who was born into the Maafa (slavery) become free...
Mary Francis Hill Coley aka Miss Mary: Healer and Midwife
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an African American lay midwife who is best known for being featured in...
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante: The Distinguished Afrocentric Scholar
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings on Afrocentricity, a school of thought that...
Ethel L. Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press
“I fought all my life to bring about change, to correct the injustices and the inequities in the system.” Ethel L. Payne was an African-American...
Richard Ihetu: One of the greatest fighters to come out of Africa
Richard “Tiger” Ihetu was one of the greatest boxers to come out of Africa. He made history in 1962 when he won the world middleweight...
Herman Branson: Co-inventor of the alpha helix
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]erman Russell Branson (August 14, 1914 – June 7, 1995) was an African-American physicist and chemist, who was co-inventor of the alpha helix and...
Ernest Everett Just : A biologist of unusual skill
Ernest Everett Just was an internationally known African-American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist who made major contributions to the field of biology through his pioneering research...