Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the jazz singers,” Lincoln wrote songs about Black culture and civil rights and sang...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to win the world middleweight championship. Flowers was born on...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a free Black in rural Maryland, her parents, Mary and Bambarra Murray, were manumitted...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the...
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter,...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and businessman. Born on August 4, 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina, Purvis was the...
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was born on August 18, 1920, 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…
