Lewis Hayden: Heroic Abolitionist
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and...
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Richard Pryor: Comic Genius
Richard Pryor was one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his generation, and starred in a number of hit films and comedy recordings. He...
Jerry Lawson: Inventor of the video game cartridge
“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...
Gordon Parks: Renaissance Man
Gordon Parks (born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks) was born on November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas. It is recorded that he was stillborn:...
Shirley Chisholm: Pioneering African American Politician
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United States Congress. Chisholm was also the first...
Marshall “Major” Taylor: The Black Cyclone
“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...
Ten Quotes by Professor Kaba Kamene (Booker T. Coleman)
The community is calling forward information. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. All of these times, all of these people have been...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Kwame Ture was a prominent Pan-African revolutionary who served as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party. Born in...
Cathay Williams: The first African American woman to enlist in the U.S. Army
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...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early: The first African American woman professor
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was a teacher and school principal in Ohio,...