Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her...
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land...
John Armstrong Howard was the first Black Olympic athlete from Canada, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The Winnipeg-raised First World War veteran dominated Canadian sprinting from 1912 to 1915. Howard...
“One day I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change—not only for Mississippi, not...
Lonnie George Johnson is an African American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is...
Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904), a school custodian from Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first African American to vote in the United States, as a...
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a Black British politician, general practitioner and political activist, who...
Nathanial “Nat” Turner was the leader of a powerful Maafa (slavery) revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831....
George Robert Carruthers was an African American space physicist and engineer, and a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. His invention was first flown on sounding rockets in 1966 and made the first...
Harry Jerome was one of the fastest men in the world for nearly a decade. He equaled and...
Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford was a West African barrister, author, and political leader who dedicated his life to...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a...
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…
