Lorraine Hansberry – First, Young, Gifted, and Black
Lorraine Hansberry died at 34. She packed more into those 34 years than most people pack into 80, and then she died at the...
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez – The First Black Man in Space Was...
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez was born poor, Black, and orphaned in a country that did not value any of those things. He died old, decorated,...
The Silver Men Built the Panama Railroad & The Canal
The Panama Canal is one of those subjects people bring up to prove human genius. A channel cut through a continent. A passage between...
The First Memorial Day Was Created by Formerly Enslaved People. Then...
On May 1, 1865, just three weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, an extraordinary event took place in Charleston, South...
The woman who was Aunt Jemima died in a pauper’s grave.
Let that sit for a moment. Nancy Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, on March 4, 1834. The exact number of...
The Voice That Connected a Region: Una Marson, BBC Pioneer
Una Maud Victoria Marson was born on 6 February 1905 in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, the youngest of six children. Her father was a Baptist...
Panama’s Month of African Heritage: The Fiesta de la Etnia Negra
In the year 2000, the Panamanian government passed Law 9, declaring May 30 as the Día de la Etnia Negra Nacional — a civic...
The Black Tax – 150 Years of Legalised Theft
The facts, then. In 2024, historian Andrew W. Kahrl published a book that exposes one of the longest running cons in American history. The...
Jane Bolin – First Black Female Judge in America
Jane Matilda Bolin was born on 11 April 1908 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the youngest child of Gaius Bolin and Matilda Ingram Emery. Her...
George W. McLaurin First Student at University of Oklahoma
George W. McLaurin was born on September 16, 1894, in Mississippi. In 1910, his family moved to the newly created state of Oklahoma. He...
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