John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. His life story...
James Alan Bland was an African-American musician and composer who was known as The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man....
Bobby Seale is an African-American political activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. The...
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944. He was fourteen...
Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers (1963–1974). Along with...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny Jackson was born enslaved in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained...
Dick Gregory is the renowned comedian, actor, and civil rights activist (born October 12, 1932) who uses his...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Powhatan Beaty served as a First Sergeant in the Union Army in Company G, 5th U.S. Colored Infantry. Beaty is best known for his...
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…
