General Clinton Bowen Fisk
Clinton Bowen Fisk (1830-1890) was an American military officer, educator, and social reformer who is best known for his work in founding Fisk University, one...
Category : Education
Donald “Muggsy” Murray
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Donald “Muggsy” Murray was a pioneering African American student-athlete at the University of Maryland in the early 1960s. He was born on January 4, 1941,...
Murray v. Maryland
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Murray v. Maryland (1936) was a landmark civil rights case in the United States that challenged the practice of segregation in higher education. The case...
School Busing
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School busing, also known as mandatory busing or court-ordered busing, is a policy that was implemented in the United States in the 1970s as a...
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
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Stephanie Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, who has made significant contributions to the field of American history,...
White Supremacy
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White supremacy is an ideology that is based on the belief that people of European descent, specifically those who are white, are inherently superior to...
Neely Fuller Jr
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Neely Fuller Jr. was born on June 6, 1929, in Galax, Virginia. He grew up in a segregated society and experienced racial discrimination firsthand. After...
Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard
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Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard was the first African-American graduate of Harvard Medical College and also one of the founding members of the oldest African-American...
Haki Madhubut
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Poet, essayist, and entrepreneur Haki Madhubuti embodies the true spirit of a renaissance man as he moves seamlessly through the worlds of literature, business, and...
CHANCELLOR J. WILLIAMS
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Prominent in the pantheon of Afrocentric scholars is Chancellor James Williams, the son of a former slave, born on December 22, 1898, in Bennettsville, South...