Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., was the first African-American general for the U.S. Army. His army career dated from...
Robert Allen “Bob” Cole (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was an African-American composer, actor, playwright, and...
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 the first documented African American to...
“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” Paul Leroy Robeson...
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]ooker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American leader and educator. Washington came up from a background of poverty...
Gordon was an enslaved African-American who became an iconic figure during the Civil War, in exposing the brutality of the Maafa ( Atlantic slavery). A famous photograph of Gordon, usually titled...
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña ( August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831), the Mexican national hero was the...
Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...
Ahmed Baba was one of the greatest African scholars. Amongst the Songhai, he was known as “The Unique Pearl of His Time”. According to John Henrik Clarke, “his life [was] a...
Ethiopia was once ruled by a mighty Queen who destroyed Axum and its countryside, the churches and Christian...
Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker,...
Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of what is now northeastern Algeria. She led one of the most significant resistance...
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…
