Willis Johnson
African-American Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, patented and improved the mechanical egg beater (U.S. pat# 292,821) on February 5, 1884. The beater was made up of...
Reverend John Jasper
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Reverend John Jasper is arguably one of the most famous black ministers of nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia, who gained popularity for his electrifying preaching style and...
George Cook
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In 1899, black American inventor George Cook of Louisville, Kentucky, received a U.S. patent for an “Automatic Fishing Device” (No. 625,829). The device featured a...
Reverend Calvin Otis Butts
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Reverend Calvin Otis Butts III was born on July 19, 1949, in Bridgeport, Connecticut; his mother worked as an administrative assistant and his father was...
Warith Deen Mohammed
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Warith Deen Mohammed, original name Wallace D. Muhammad, (born Oct. 30, 1933, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Sept. 9, 2008, Markham, Ill.), American religious leader, son and...
Anglo-Ashanti Wars
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The Anglo-Ashanti Wars were five conflicts that occurred between the Ashanti Empire and the British Empire and which ultimately resulted in the Ashanti Empire being...
Osei Tutu
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Osei Tutu, (born c. 1660—died 1712 or 1717), founder and first ruler of the Asante (Ashanti) empire (in present-day Ghana) who as chief of the...
The Golden Stool
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The Golden Stool (full title, Sika Dwa Kofi) has been the symbol of power in the Ashanti Kingdom since the 17th century. According to oral tradition,...
Asante
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Asante, also spelled Ashanti, are people of south-central Ghana and adjacent areas of Togo and Côte d’Ivoire. Most of the Asante live in a region...
Asante empire
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Asante empire, Asante also spelled Ashanti, West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extending from the...