Medgar Wiley Evers was a Black civil rights activist murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi for his efforts...
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at...
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of General Francis Marion (1732–1795). The general was the legendary “Swamp Fox” from South...
Walter Moses Burton holds the distinction of being the first Black elected sheriff in the United States. Burton...
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. Authorities claimed the murder...
“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that...
Dr. Claud Anderson is founder and president of The Harvest Institute, a think-tank whose mission is the social...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
