Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African-American nurse and a Californian real-estate entrepreneur and notable philanthropist. Mason who was...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Francis Hill Coley (August 15, 1900 – March 1966) was an African American lay midwife who...
“I fought all my life to bring about change, to correct the injustices and the inequities in the system.” Ethel L. Payne was an African-American journalist. Known as the “First Lady...
Ernest Everett Just was an internationally known African-American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist who made major contributions to the...
[dropcap size=small]E[/dropcap]va Beatrice Dykes was the first Black woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree and...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. Hopkins was one of the first writers to introduce racial and social...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of...
Ronald Moody (12 August 1900–6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born modernist sculptor, writer, broadcaster, and trained dentist. Although...
Thomas Nelson Baker Sr. (1860–1941) was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy (1903, Yale University). He was a writer, orator, ethicist, and advocate for a positive Black...
J. Rosamond Johnson was one of the most successful of the early African American composers and singers during...
Matthew Alexander Henson was the first African-American Arctic explorer to reach the North Pole in 1909, as part...
Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (1758-August 8, 1858 ), was the Empress of Haiti (1804-1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Félicité was born in Léogane to a poor but free...
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…
