Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, professor, and scholar is best known for her acclaimed work The New Jim Crow (2010). Born in...
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John Henrik Clarke – The pioneer who made Africana Studies prominent in Academia
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting...
Banned in Jamaica and assassinated in his home country of Guyana, here’s why Walter Rodney was so fearsome
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An intellectual and scholar regarded as one of the Caribbean’s most brilliant minds, Walter Anthony Rodney, born to Edward and Pauline Rodney in Georgetown, Guyana...
Harvard Law School traces its origins to an Antiguan slave owner. Now the country wants reparations.
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In an urgently worded letter recently sent to Harvard, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne demanded that the university pay his country reparations ‘‘for...
Gibor Saul Basri
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Astronomer Gibor S. Basri was born in May 3, 1951 in New York City, New York, the eldest son of Saul A. Basri, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant from...
Henry Fitzbutler
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Although mainly known as the founder of Louisville National Medical College, Dr. Henry Fitzbutler was an exceptional physician and educator. Fitzbutler and his wife Sarah Helen McCurdy became activists in their community...
Bessie Blount Griffin
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Bessie Virginia Blount, pioneer physical therapist, inventor, and scientist, was born in Hickory (today Chesapeake), Virginia, on November 24, 1914. In the sixth grade, she had to discontinue...
Mary Elizabeth Branch
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Mary Elizabeth Branch, one of the most prominent black women educators of the first half of the twentieth century, was born on May 29, 1881 in Farmwell, Virginia,...
Artemisia Bowden
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Artemisia Bowden, an educator and civic leader, one of few black women college presidents during the first half of the 20th century, was born on January 1, 1879 in Albany, Georgia,...
Ples Sterling Stuckey, Jr.
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Ples Sterling Stuckey, Jr. was a professor of history best known for his impact on shifting slavery studies from examinations ancillary to enslaved African American...