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William Manuel “Bill” Johnson was an African American jazz musician, considered the father of the “slap” style of...
Clarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an African-American violinist and composer. Born in...
Whitney Houston, singer and actress, has sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions include two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, five People’s...
Matthew Alexander Henson was the first African-American Arctic explorer to reach the North Pole in 1909, as part...
[dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]alph Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize....
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111 years, 30 days old when he died. Matthews was also the oldest man...
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...
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…
