Earl G. Graves Sr. was the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and a nationally recognized authority on black business development. Born January 9, 1935, Graves was raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of […]
James Baldwin — the grandson of a slave — was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. He was the oldest of nine children growing up in poverty. Throughout his life, Baldwin was recognized not […]
Born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, Benjamin Banneker was the son of an ex-slave named Robert and his wife, Mary Banneky. Mary was the daughter of an Englishwoman named Molly Welsh, a […]
Mary Bowser, birthdate unknown, first appears in history on May 17, 1846. On that day, “Mary Jane, a colored child belonging to Mrs. Van Lew,” was baptized at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, according […]
Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. The fourth of six siblings born to Sylvia Delacerna, Copeland’s family moved several times before eventually settling in the coastal community of San […]
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. Her father was a janitor who had hoped to become a doctor; her mother was a schoolteacher and classically trained pianist. They were […]
Fannie Lou Townshend (1917-1977) was born into poverty, the youngest of 20 children, to sharecroppers Lou Ella and Jim Townshend in Montgomery County, Mississippi. At age six she joined her family in the cotton fields. […]
Maggie Lena Walker (1864–1934), was born free as Maggie Lena Draper on July 15, 1864, in Richmond Virginia. Her mother, Elizabeth Draper, was a former slave and the assistant cook for Elizabeth Van Lew, an abolitionist on […]
Eugene Jacques Bullard (1895 – 1961) was born October 9, 1895, in Columbus, GA as the seventh out of ten total children born to William Octave Bullard and Josephine “Yokalee” Thomas. Eugene’s father was originally […]
Mansa Musa (D. 1337) In the thirteenth century, the Mandinka people of the state of Kangaba in Western Sudan emerged as the most powerful group in Africa. The rise of the Mandinka was due largely to […]
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