“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat...
On August 21, 1860, enslaved African American Eliza Winston was freed from her Mississippi enslaver in a Minneapolis...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad across many states and then helped...
Bridget “Biddy” Mason was an African-American nurse and a Californian real-estate entrepreneur and notable philanthropist. Mason who was...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my...
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in the Maafa (slavery) to a family...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond...
Anna Murray Douglass is best known as the first wife of Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born as a free Black in rural Maryland, her parents, Mary and Bambarra Murray, were manumitted...
Robert Purvis was a radical African American abolitionist and reformer as well as a prosperous gentleman farmer and...
Louis Delgrès was an African-Caribbean freedom fighter who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe against Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt...
“An African…has an undeniable right to his Liberty.” Lemuel Haynes was an influential African-American religious leader who argued against the Maafa (slavery). Haynes was the abandoned child of an African father...
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…
