Joe Louis, the “Brown Bomber,” was one of the most dominant heavyweight champions in boxing history and a...
“Whatever path we seem to take, it always has one end: a racist bullet. A racist bullet murdered...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves:...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary...
“By any means necessary.” Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was one...
Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children’s book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when...
Laura Wheeler was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans including...
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first Black graduate nurse in the United States. Mary Eliza Mahoney...
Every people should be originators of their own destiny. Martin Robinson Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) stands as one of the most formidable and multifaceted intellectuals of the...
“The reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots.” Kofi Ghanaba, also known as Guy Warren, was one...
Sugar Ray Robinson is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time. Robinson held the world welterweight...
Vernon Napoleon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was a brilliant, uncompromising Baptist preacher whose life helped lay the moral and intellectual groundwork for the modern civil rights movement....
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…
