[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty...
“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A famous photograph of Gordon, usually titled...
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the...
“We’re universal entities. The way our DNA is coded, there’s nothing we don’t know. It’s a matter of...
Dr. Umar Johnson is considered a national expert on learning disabilities and their effect on Black children, as well as being an expert on helping schools and parents modify challenging behaviours...
“I want Black people to engage in, not in searching for rights, but I want them to search...
“I tell people in most of my presentations don’t believe a word I say. I’m not here to...
“No one can figure out your worth but you.” Pearl Bailey was born on March 29, 1918, in Newport News, Virginia. The daughter of a preacher, Bailey began singing at the...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker,...
Born on March 28th in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ed Wilson became interested in art as a child...
“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that to be wrong.” Arthur Mitchell, born March 27, 1934, is an African-American dancer...
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…
