Joe Louis: The Brown Bomber
Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber,” was one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in boxing history and a national symbol of Black dignity, American patriotism,...
Category : Taurus-Born
Black history makers born under the sign of Taurus
Lima Barreto: Brazil’s Sad Visionary
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...
Kathleen Cleaver: ‘My Place is in the Revolution’
“Whatever path we seem to take, it always has one end: a racist bullet. A racist bullet murdered Malcolm X, murdered Martin Luther King, murdered...
Mazisi Kunene: Poet Laureate of Africa
How will I ever forget you, magic leaf Tormented as I am by your taunts The prodding jeers and the branding iron You command, “[Captive],...
Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Poet of the Tides
Edward Kamau Brathwaite — born Lawson Edward Brathwaite on May 11, 1930 — was a Barbadian poet, historian, linguist and cultural theorist who became one...
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues
I went to the crossroadFell down on my kneesI went to the crossroadFell down on my kneesAsked the Lord above, “Have mercy now,Save poor Bob,...
Milton Santos: The Noble Geographer
Milton Almeida dos Santos was a pioneering Black Brazilian geographer whose groundbreaking work reshaped global understandings of cities, space, and globalization from the vantage point...
Elijah McCoy: “The Real McCoy”
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...
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy: A Nigerian-British Painter of Majestic Presence
Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952–2012) was a distinguished Nigerian-British visual artist who gained international recognition for her portraiture, figurative works, and vibrant depictions of African...
Empress Zewditu: She Is the Crown
In the early twentieth century, when almost the entire African continent had been carved up under European oppression, an African woman sat on a sovereign...