Charles L. Reason was an African American mathematician, linguist, educator, and abolitionist. In 1849 he became the first...
“A normal black child, having grown up in a normal family, will become abnormal at the slightest...
Richard Potter was the first African-American magician and the first American-born magician to gain fame in his own country. Potter who called himself, the Emperor of all Conjurors, was the most...
Joseph Lee was an African American restaurateur and caterer who invented the use of breadcrumbs and the automatic...
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the abandoned child of an African father...
Alexander H. Johnson enlisted at the age of 16 as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment....
In 1993, The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities commissioned a new memorial to African-American...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers; they were first recruited during the American Civil War (1861-65), and by the...
In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker became the first woman bank president in the United States when she founded...
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University...
Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, and two...
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…
