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Robert Robinson Taylor: MIT’s first Black graduate and America’s first Black architect
He is Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) first Black student and graduate. He is also regarded as the nation’s first Black architect. Robert Robinson Taylor born on June 8, 1868...
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Spat at, Dorothy Counts became first African-American to attend the all-white Harding High School
In the fight waged by Blacks to have public schools desegregated so people of African stock could access education, 15-year-old Dorothy Counts beat the odds when on September 4, 1957 she became the first...
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How ‘new born’ American photography in 1863 exposed shackles ex-slave Wilson Chinn got saved from
The tale of enslaved African Wilson Chinn from Louisiana is an interesting one. Chinn was branded on his forehead by the initials of his last master, which in itself is quite appalling. However, the real...
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Remembering Black Panther’s Bunchy Carter and John Huggins who were assassinated on UCLA campus
The path to greatness has no specific way as the life of slain activist Malcolm X showed. Another notable fellow for the African cause whose life and contribution too deserve attention is Alprentice “Bunchy”...
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The harrowing lynching tale of George Smith in 1891 – without trial
28 years before a white mob lynched Will Brown who was falsely accused of raping a white girl in Omaha, the town earned its infamy with the lynching of another African American. George Smith, also known...
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How runaway slaves outwit killer dogs sent after them
Given that enslaved Africans were anxious to flee from their white slave holders, they devised various ways to escape without detection and capture. We do know when escaping quietly was out of the question,...
