Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of musical legend, Fela Kuti, was also a legend, herself. Known as the Lioness...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her large, painted story quilts. Born Faith Willi Jones October 8, 1930, in New...
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mother and the wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often spoke of the positive influence his mother had...
Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. In 1943, she became the first African-American woman to...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the earliest African-American female poets to gain widespread recognition. As part of...
Marie Laveau is the most renowned Voodoo figure in the history of North America. For several decades she held New Orleans spellbound, as her occult powers became legendary. The crypt where...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus...
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…
