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  Autistic and proud black achievers who keep going strong

  Farida Dawkins

  Autistic persons live with the illness for the duration of their life, however, they are not bound by their disability. Autism, also referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), is a condition...

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  6 times Winnie Mandela stood strong in the face of apartheid

  Farida Dawkins

  Winnie Mandela, born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela, was more than Nelson Mandela’s former wife.  She was a staunch supporter of her then husband’s cause and was all but passive in...

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  Olaudah Equiano, the enslaved Nigerian who became a pioneer abolitionist in England

  Farida Dawkins

  Olaudah Equiano, born in 1745 in the Igbo region of Nigeria, was enslaved as a child and transported to South Carolina. In 1789 he penned his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life Of...

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  The horrible court case of nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931

  Farida Dawkins

  On March 25, 1931, nine black boys were traveling on a freight train from Chattanooga to Memphis, Tennessee.  A group of white youth who were hoboing attempted to throw one of the nine boys off the...

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  The life of legendary civil rights icon W.E.B. Du Bois after settling in Africa

  Farida Dawkins

  W.E.B DuBois could not hide his love for Africa. He noted in his book, Dusk of Dawn, that the African melody was his only cultural connection to the continent: The life of legendary civil rights icon W.E.B....

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  How an unknown Afro-Dominican airman ended segregation in U.S. army by staging a mutiny

  Farida Dawkins

  On February 21, 1942, Esteban Hotesse joined the United States Army Air Corps.  Hotesse may have not known at the time that he was making history and charting a path as the only Dominican-born member...

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