In February 2022, the global campaign will begin to gather the required signatures to petition President Biden for a POSTHUMOUS PARDON for the Honorable Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey was an outstanding and influential civil rights […]
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 […]
I was honored when the team over at the Maryland Humanities Council asked me to pen a piece about #Books and #BlackHistoryMonth. I was a little nervous that my old school radical ‘Adwin-self’ (for those […]
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 […]
Ona Judge (c.1773—February 25, 1848), known as Ona Judge Staines after marriage, was a light-skinned, heavily freckled and slight of build slave on George Washington’s plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Her mother, Betty, was an enslaved […]
Ruth Simmons (July 3, 1945) became the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution when she was elected as the 18th president of Brown University. The youngest of 12 children born to sharecropper parents […]
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