Alice Augusta Ball: The African-American chemist who developed an effective treatment of leprosy
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940s and died at the very young
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Louis T. Wright: “Mr Harlem Hospital”
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first Black physician to be appointed to the
Emperor Haile Selassie I: “Might of the Trinity”
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s 225th and
Djibril Diop Mambety: The Prince of Colobane
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet, loved and admired by critics and audiences
Ten Visionary Quotes on African Filmmaking by Djibril Diop Mambety
Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly talented and creative filmmaker of exceptional insight
The Art of Norman W. Lewis
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in the late 1940s, his work became increasingly
Ten Powerful Quotes by Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I (1892–1975), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, is remembered as a modernising African monarch, a fierce advocate of collective security, and
Nicolás Guillén Landrián: Cuban Documentary Filmmaker
Nicolás Guillén Landrián (1938 in Camagüey, Cuba – July 23, 2003 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban experimental filmmaker and painter. He was the nephew
Quincy Troupe: California’s First Official Poet Laureate
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais: The President of two Presidents
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joust was called “The President of two Presidents” and was the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti. She