Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in Talbot County, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He was born a slave, the son of Harriet...
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approx...
It was Robert Smalls’ heroics that convinced President Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army. Smalls would go on to become a ship’s...
(1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout ...
Professor James Small is certainly not one to mince words. Best known for serving up controversial outrages, and slices of liberating powers of truth ab...
Has fast grown into one of the most popular contributors on the Fly Nubian Queen Platform. Known around the globe for her extraordinary and inspirationa...
Emory Douglas is an American artist who worked as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. ...
The pioneer who made Africana Studies prominent in Academia Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in t...
Was an African-American sociologist, historian and writer. He is noted for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans; his maj...
Was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store....
Gabriel, today commonly known as Gabriel Prosser, was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer o...
Formerly known as Louis X, is an American religious leader and political activist. He is the leader of the Nation of Islam. Previously, he served as the mini...
