Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]erman Russell Branson (August 14, 1914 – June 7, 1995) was an African-American physicist and chemist, who...
Ernest Everett Just was an internationally respected African American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist whose pioneering research on fertilization,...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]va Beatrice Dykes was the first Black woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree and the third African American woman to receive a Ph.D. Two other Black women,...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and...
Charles E. Anderson is the first African American to receive a PhD in Meteorology and to earn national...
“I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States. I wanted America to know that beauty isn’t just [whyte].” Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell was the first African-American...
Annie Lillian Evans, who would later become the famed classical singer Lillian Evanti, was the first African American...
Thomas Nelson Baker Sr. (1860–1941) was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy (1903, Yale...
Dr.Solomon Carter Fuller was the first African American psychiatrist who made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer’s disease. He was also one of the first Black physicians to teach on...
J. Rosamond Johnson was one of the most successful of the early African American composers and singers during...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the...
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…
