[dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]alph Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize....
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111...
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...
“All I have tried to do is to tell their story. Sometimes, moved deeply by such damnable acts...
Henrietta Lacks, known as the Mother of Modern Science, is an African-American woman whose cancer cells became the...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. After practicing in Philadelphia for...
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14, after...
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers...
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment of leprosy until the 1940s and died at the very young age of 24. She was also...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first...
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor...
Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, known as Joute, was called “the President of two Presidents” and is regarded as the most politically powerful woman in the history of Haiti before the introduction of women’s...
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…
