Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Josiah Henson, was a spiritual leader, author and founder of the Black community settlement at Dawn in Ontario,...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella was an extraordinary...
Juan Garrido was an African-Spanish conquistador, who is the first documented Black person to arrive in the United States. African by birth, he went to Portugal as a young man, and...
“My desires were to be free as soon as I learned that there had been slavery of human...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage to speak the naked but healing truth that must comfort her wherever she...
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted...
Ernest Fredric “Ernie” Morrison was the first Black child movie star. Morrison, who performed under the stage name...
William Augustus Hinton was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School and the first African American to publish an academic textbook. As a bacteriologist, pathologist and educator, he was a...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before...
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and symbol of Black womanhood. Truth was born into...
Nancy Green known as the Pancake Queen, was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as “Aunt Jemima.” The famous Aunt...
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…
