Louis Armstrong: Ambassor Satch
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian....
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Delos Rogest Davis: Canada’s 2nd Black lawyer
Delos Rogest Davis, teacher and lawyer (August 4, 1846- April 13, 1915) was the second Black lawyer in Canada and the first Black person appointed...
Robert Purvis: Radical African American abolitionist and reformer
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and businessman. Born on August 4, 1810 in...
Edward Wilmot Blyden: A Voice from Bleeding Africa
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element.” Edward Wilmot Blyden...
Lucky Dube: South Africa’s Best-selling Reggae artist
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music just talks about sex, women, and drugs....
James Baldwin: Witness to the truth
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest...
Roi Ottley: Outstanding writer and war-correspondent
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts of prejudice, I have allowed the words...
Henrietta Lacks: The birth of the Hela Cells
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington: The first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in...
Whitney Moore Young Jr.: The Civil Rights Powerbroker
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and in most cases no boots.” ~Whitney Young...