The African Founding Father of San Francisco San Francisco, renowned for its stunning bays and the infamous Alcatraz Island, owes much of its early development...
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...
Hubert Henry Harrison is the most important black radical you’ve ever heard of. While other leading figures in the black freedom movement, from W. E. B....
One of the most sidelined American architects is African American architect Julian Francis Abele who is noted to have designed several important buildings including one...
The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes that held Africans as chattel slaves out of five other civilized tribes. By the early 1860s, the...
Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Margaret Moultrie and William Johnson, earning his lifelong nickname from...