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Mamie Till-Mobley was considered the godmother of the civil rights movement in the mid-1900s. She devoted herself to fighting racial injustice after the gruesome murder of her 14-year-old son in 1955. Emmet Till was accused of allegedly sexually harassing Carolyn Bryant, a white shopkeeper in Money, Mississippi. The world soaked in the barbaric details of…
Heavyweight champion, Big Bill Tate, was among the many fortunate African Americans who had...
Courage, dexterity, profound cultures, and influential leaders; when it comes to black history,...
Black educator and abolitionist, George Boyer Vashon, gained recognition in his lifetime as...
The Howard Bison, the only all-Black team in collegiate swimming, has become the first all-Black swim and dive team to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine. The sports magazine began covering...
When Charles Douglass and his wife Laura decided to visit the Bay Ridge Resort on the Chesapeake Bay in 1890 to enjoy the sea breeze, it did not occur to them that the color of their skin could be a reason...
Every person of African descent with links to slavery has their own narrative. For educationist Hallie Quinn Brown, her parents, Thomas Arthur Brown and Frances Jane Scroggins were former slaves. Her father...
Richard Henderson came to Meadville in 1824, becoming the first permanent Black resident there. He had escaped from his owner at the age of 15. He did not take this dangerous expedition alone. He escaped...
When at the age of 13 she gained admission into the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), one of the premier universities in the West African nation of Ghana, Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa...
The journey of African-American painter Edwin Harleston began when he married photographer Elise Forrest in 1920. His wife shaped a long-held pursuit of rewriting the narrative about African Americans....
Since childhood, Adama Ndiaye had always dreamt of becoming a fashion diva. But her father wanted her to pursue higher education and get a stable job. In school, she read economics and banking, which landed...
Benjamin Bradley shocked his cohorts and owner when he built a steam engine out of a gun barrel, steel and pewter, among other materials. Awed by his brilliance, his owner arranged for him to serve as...
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