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The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World...

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (1878–1949) was a pioneering African American tap dancer, actor, and singer who rose to become...

Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) was a physician, radiologist, writer, musician, and orator whose remarkable, though brief, life had a profound impact on the Harlem Renaissance and African American literary and intellectual history....

Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) was a towering Caribbean-born intellectual, agitator, and educator whose life forces us to rethink...

“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...

Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first Black physician to be appointed to the staff of a New York municipal...

June Jordan was a Jamaican American poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, librettist, teacher, and activist whose writing joined lyrical...