Anna Murray Douglass: His story was made possible because of her love
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,...
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Barack Hussein Obama II: The 44th President of the United States
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are...
Louis Armstrong: Ambassor Satch
Louis Armstrong, known as Ambassor Satch is considered the most important improviser in jazz. Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian....
Robert Purvis: Radical African American abolitionist and reformer
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...
James Baldwin: Witness to the truth
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest...
Roi Ottley: Outstanding writer and war-correspondent
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts of prejudice, I have allowed the words...
Henrietta Lacks: The birth of the Hela Cells
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...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington: The first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in...
Whitney Moore Young Jr.: The Civil Rights Powerbroker
“We desire to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in the past we’ve had no straps, and in most cases no boots.” ~Whitney Young...
Buddy Guy: The Best Guitarist Alive
George “Buddy” Guy is an African American blues guitarist and singer, described by Eric Clapton as “the best guitar player alive”. Buddy Guy is an...