Harry Lew is best known for becoming the first African-American professional basketball player when he joined the New...
Carter G. Woodson, known as The Father of Black History, was the African American historian who first opened...
Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and the first African-American woman to make public lectures. Stewart is known for four...
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
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 a long and prolific career, publishing...
John Ware lived in what we may consider the golden age of the ranching frontier and achieved heroic...
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American...
George Bonga was a fur trader of African-American and Native American heritage, and one of the first African Americans born in what is now Minnesota. Bonga lived along the shores of...
“My idea, my belief, my intention is for the United States of America to be known as a...
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. Asante is known for his writings...
“I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States. I wanted America to know that beauty isn’t just [whyte].” Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell was the first African-American...
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…
