William Still: Father of the Underground Railroad
“It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still was an African-American...
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John Armstrong Howard: The First Black Canadian Olympic Athlete
John Armstrong Howard was the first Black Olympic athlete from Canada, competing in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The Winnipeg-raised First World War veteran dominated Canadian...
Sanité Bélair: The Tigress of Haiti
Sanité Bélair (born Suzanne Bélair), was a Haitian freedom fighter and revolutionary during the Haitian Revolution. Sanité, whom Dessalines described as “a tigress,” is formally...
Nat Turner: African-American Hero of the Maafa
Nathanial “Nat” Turner was the leader of a powerful Maafa (slavery) revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was one of the...
George Robert Carruthers: Inventor of the far-ultraviolet camera and spectrograph
George Robert Carruthers is an African American astrophysicist, who is a pioneer in ultraviolet astronomy. Carruthers’ invention was first used in sounding rocket flights in...
Harry Winston Jerome: “Never Give Up”
Harry Jerome was one of the fastest men in the world for nearly a decade. He equaled and set numerous Canadian sprint records, as well as...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Mother of African American journalism
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Harper had...
Jakob Marengo: National Hero of Namibia
Jakob Marenga (also known as Jacob Morenga), is a national hero of Namibia. Marenga, which means King in Otjiherero, was an early resistance hero of...
Claude McKay: Radical Poet
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” the most militant poem of the Harlem Renaissance. Mckay,...
Jesse Owens: Olympic Legend
Jesse Owens achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in...