Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and...
Henry Armstrong was the first boxer to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three different divisions: the featherweight,...
Lewis Hayden was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from the Maafa (slavery) in Kentucky to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician. Lewis Hayden...
“The whole reason I did games was because people said, ‘You can’t do it.’ I’m one of the...
“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship...
Cathay Williams (1844 – 1892), a.k.a. William Cathay, was the first known African American woman to enlist in the United States Army, and the only black woman documented to serve in...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy...
George Coleman Poage was the first African-American athlete to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, winning two bronze medals at the 1904 games in St. Louis. Poage was born...
Patricia E. Bath discovered and invented the Laserphaco Probe, a new device for cataract surgery. Bath is also...
Fredrick L. McGhee was a Black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first woman to study for a law degree at an American university. Mary Ann...
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…
