Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
“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...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker, a businessman and finally an inventor. He was inducted into the National Inventors...
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...
Harold Lloyd Nicholas, born on March 27, 1921, was one half of the world-famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas. They danced in vaudeville, on Broadway, in nightclubs and on...
“Everything is revealed to all men as they desire it to be revealed to them, by their own...
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American activist, administrator and educator, who dedicated her life to seeing racial and...
“I have a sense of passion about Black, about African people, so I want to use any vehicles we have to uplift Black people and I see history and ‘knowledge of...
Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live...
The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his...
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…
