Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy...
George Coleman Poage was the first African-American athlete to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis. Poage was born...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee...
Mahalia Jackson was gospel music’s first superstar and is considered the greatest gospel singer ever to live. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as “the single most powerful Black woman...
James Alan Bland was an African-American musician and composer who was known as The World’s Greatest Minstrel Man....
Bobby Seale is an African-American political activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. The...
George Junius Stinney, Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944. He was fourteen...
Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation...
Fanny Jackson Coppin was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Fanny...
Sylvester Magee was an African American who may have been the last living former enslaved American. Although Magee’s claim is undocumented, he received much publicity and was accepted for treatment by...
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…
