Matthew Henson: The first man to reach the North Pole
Matthew Alexander Henson was the first African-American Arctic explorer to reach the North Pole in 1909, as part of the Peary Expedition. Over a period...
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York: The Black Explorer
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and...