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Black Firsts

The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World...

Tupac Amaru Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971, was an American rapper, actor, poet, and...

Sun Ra was a visionary American jazz composer and bandleader celebrated for his pioneering role in the Afrofuturism movement. Born as Herman Poole Blount, he later renounced his legal identity to...

Marie Selika Williams (c. 1849/1850–20 May 1937) was one of the most accomplished and pathbreaking African American classical...

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry lived only 34 years, yet she reshaped American theater, sharpened the intellectual edge of the...

Juan Rodríguez (Dutch: Jan Rodrigues; Portuguese: João Rodrigues) holds the distinction of being the first documented non-indigenous person to reside on Manhattan Island. He arrived in 1613—seven years before the Pilgrims...

Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, is celebrated as one of...

Milton Almeida dos Santos was a pioneering Black Brazilian geographer whose groundbreaking work reshaped global understandings of cities,...

Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own volume of poetry, she was one of the most revered poets of her...

“I just had a God-given talent for making people beautiful…” Zelda Wynn Valdes was a fashion legend who...

“I write to celebrate life.” “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back...

Olive Elaine Morris was a Black-British community leader and political activist, who campaigned for racial, gender and social equality, as well as squatters’ rights in the 1970s in the United Kingdom. Morris...

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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…

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