Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first African American to hold a regular professorship
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary political thinker, originally from Martinique. His book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) is seen as the “bible of Third Worldism.” In
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own country. Potter who called himself, the Emperor
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the
In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American soldiers and sailors who fought in the
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