“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And...
Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name...
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into...
Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American...
John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United State. Rock was an eloquent African American activist and master...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
The first Black athlete to compete at the Olympics was Haitian-born French rugby player Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera,...
Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and political leader, known within Puerto Rico as the “father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement”. To honor him, Puerto...
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…
