Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
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 activist whose brief yet impactful life produced one of the most enduring and...
Sun Ra was a visionary American jazz composer and bandleader celebrated for his pioneering role in the Afrofuturism...
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 Civil Rights Movement, and left behind a body of work that continues to...
Juan Rodríguez (Dutch: Jan Rodrigues; Portuguese: João Rodrigues) holds the distinction of being the first documented non-indigenous person...
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, space, and globalization from the vantage point of the dispossessed. In 1994, he...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own...
“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 to Africa, who tried to honor being human…” Lucille Clifton was a distinguished...
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…
