If You Know Her by Kwame Dawes
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all these years, you will know how she
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What’s the Hour of the Night? by Queen Mother Audley Moore
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the dawn of dayBut the day is not
Interview with Wilbert Smith, author of Hole in the Head, the story of Vertus Hardiman
“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to live his life in spite of what
Johnson Beharry: A Military Hero
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers
Rita Marley: Queen of Reggae
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,” Rita Marley has spent time and energy
Emmett Till: A Stolen Life
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a whyte woman. His
Adele Addison: Singing Beauty
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. She is best
Frank Alvin Silvera: The Man with a Thousand Faces
Frank Alvin Silvera was one of the 20th century’s greatest character actors. Silvera was known as “the man with a thousand faces” because of his
Alexandre Dumas: The Father of great swashbuckling historical epics
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas
Ira Aldridge: The Great Shakespearean Actor
Ira Aldridge was a 19th-century African-American actor who became a renowned actor of Shakespearean tragedy on the European stage. He is the only actor of