Tagged African-American

I had to go see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom. I remember going to the Empire cinema in Leicester Square, London, to watch the film o...

Born in Africa as Oluale Kossula, he died in America in 1935 as Cudjoe Lewis. Oluale Kossula was considered the last person born in Afrika to have been enslaved in the United States. However, he was the last m...

"In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees what is strange and wonderful, for every thing is strange."—Paul du Chaillu Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (du...

Isaac Burns Murphy was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history. Murphy rode in the Kentucky Derby 11 times and was the...

The quotes featured below have been taken from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History. I have adapted the quotes to facilitate contemporary reading by modernizing the l...

William DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal, when he won the long (broad) jump by leaping over 24 feet 5½ inches on July 8 at the 1924 Paris Summer ...

Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was born Zelda Jackson in a small town outside Pittsburgh. She was a self-taught artist who had several successful comic strips and cartoon characters, and th...

Anna Mac Clarke was the first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all European regiment, when the United States military was still segregated. Clarke joined the Women's Army Corps ...

Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario, Canada. He is widely believed to be the model for "Uncle Tom" in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Unc...

After the civil war, regiments of African-American soldiers served on the western frontier, battling Native-Americans and protecting European settlers. They became known as Buffalo Soldiers. These buffalo soldi...