Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic bread maker. Joseph Lee was born on July 19, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts....
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. He was the first Black musician to enlist during the Civil War and...
Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a central figure in one of the most...
“One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a...
“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was...
Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred...
Assata Shakur stands as one of the most enduring and controversial voices of Black resistance in the twentieth...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and the university’s first African American graduate. She was...
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…
