Reginald F. Lewis, the owner of TLC Beatrice International, a $500 million European conglomerate in food processing and...
Fred Hampton was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party...
Ralph Gardner-Chavis, who was a pioneer in plastic chemistry, owns the distinction of being one of the scientists and technicians who worked on the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb....
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to...
Richard Pryor was one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his generation, and starred in a number...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the guys, if you tell me I can’t do something, I’ll turn around and...
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas....
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.” Marshall Walter...
The community is calling forward information. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. All of these...
Kwame Ture was a prominent Pan-African revolutionary who served as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Philadelphia chapter...
Cathay Williams (1844 – 1892), a.k.a. William Cathay, was the first known African American woman to enlist in the United States Army, and the only black woman documented to serve in...
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…
