Whitney Houston, singer and actress, has sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during the Civil War. As the author...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the world’s first immortal human cells. Lacks was born on August 18, 1920, in...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley, nicknamed the “Sunshine super girl” is an Australian former World No. 1 female tennis player....
Perhaps best known as the widow of reggae legend Bob Marley and often called the “Queen of Reggae,”...
Adele Addison is an African-American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. She is best remembered today as the singing voice...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most...
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An African American diarist of the early...
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…
