“In such a wild country as Africa one does not go far without adventures. The traveler necessarily sees...
Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and...
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...
Sarah Jane Woodson Early was an African American educator, author and temperance activist. For 30 years Early was...
Mary Ann Shadd, was the first Black woman in North America to publish a newspaper and the first...
“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 abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, writer,...
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-Maafa (Atlantic slavery) activist. In 1829, while living in Boston,...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
Henry Edwin Baker, Jr. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where...
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as...
Archibald Henry Grimké was a leading African-American intellectual, activist, and author on racial equality in early 20th Century...
[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onroe Nathan Work was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908 and expanded its national reputation. With much of his career...
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…
