Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black history makers born under the sign of Taurus
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician whose groundbreaking...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the Civil Rights Movement, and left behind a body of work that continues to...
Queen Charlotte’s racial identity remains one of the most intensely debated topics in modern British royal historiography. The...
Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber,” was one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in boxing history and a...
Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881–1922) was a distinguished Brazilian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his incisive social criticism and satirical depictions of Rio de Janeiro society. Born on...
“Whatever path we seem to take, it always has one end: a racist bullet. A racist bullet murdered...
How will I ever forget you, magic leaf Tormented as I am by your taunts The prodding jeers...
Edward Kamau Brathwaite — born Lawson Edward Brathwaite on May 11, 1930 — was a Barbadian poet, historian, linguist and cultural theorist who became one of the towering figures of Caribbean...
I went to the crossroadFell down on my kneesI went to the crossroadFell down on my kneesAsked the...
Milton Almeida dos Santos was a pioneering Black Brazilian geographer whose groundbreaking work reshaped global understandings of cities,...
Elijah McCoy was a pioneering Black Canadian‑American mechanical engineer and inventor whose automatic lubricator transformed steam power and became synonymous with the idea of “the real McCoy.” Early life and roots...
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…
